Service Pack 1 for Windows XP, released in May, combined such patches with a handful of tweaks required by the settlement of the government's anti-trust case against the Redmond, Washington-based software giant.
Though the latest version of MyDoom did not target Microsoft products specifically, as many other viruses have, it hosted an ancillary, or 'backdoor', infection programmed to launch a denial-of-service attack on the software maker's website.
Microsoft has also re-released a patch from last month's graphics vulnerability, fixing a conflict with Windows XP Service Pack 2. Microsoft has released 10 software security advisories, warning Windows users and corporate administrators of 22 new...
The monthly security bulletin addresses a vulnerability found in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and 4, which the company ranks as "important", its second-highest severity rating. The second is a clarification of Microsoft's simple mail transfer...
Microsoft has revealed plans to release a third service pack for its flagship Windows XP operating system. There will be a Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Windows XP," Bernard Ourghanlian, technical and security director at Microsoft France, confirmed...
Users who get the Groove desktop software have the choice of running their own Groove server or subscribing to a hosted service. Microsoft released an initial beta of Office 2007 in November, with a second beta planned for this spring.