14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has quietly addressed the famous SVCHOST bug in Windows XP causing CPUs to redline during Windows Update as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday updates.
Even though the company hasn’t officially announced this, a statement released for WindowsITPro confirms that Windows XP users should no longer experience problems during Windows Update.
“On Tuesday, Microsoft depreciated legacy security updates for Internet Explorer that had been replaced by more recent ones. We did this to improve customer experience, reducing the time Windows Update requires to check existing updates before installing new ones. This action was purely to improve update performance and does not affect customer security,” Dustin Childs, group manager, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, was quoted as saying.
Windows XP will be retired on April 8, so it was essential for Microsoft to address this error, especially because so many users are still running this OS version right now.
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