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Time is running out for Office 2003 Service Pack 2. Microsoft is gearing up to pull the plug on the precursor of Office 2003 SP3. As of the coming month, the Redmond company will no longer deliver support for Service Pack 2 for Office 2003. Even though the Microsoft Support Lifecycle can span to as much as two years,... |
24 September 2008
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Microsoft revealed that there are scenarios in which the software installation process on Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows XP SP2 would fail, causing the entire operating system to become unresponsive. The Redmond giant has identified no specific software products which fail to integrate with Windows XP; howeve... |
19 September 2008
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Deploying Service Pack 3 directly on top of a fresh installation of Windows XP Service Pack 2 will kill all subsequent updates from Microsoft's servers. The Redmond giant warned that integrating SP3 into the operating system straight after performing a new installation of XP SP2 via Windows Update will result in... |
4 August 2008
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 does play nice with Intel Core 2 Duo processors, with a small exception, according to Microsoft. Apparently, the Win32_Processor class of XP SP3 manages to label Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs incorrectly, this also being valid for machines running XP with Service Pack 2 installed. In this context, i... |
17 July 2008
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Service Pack 2 were left wide open to attacks via a vulnerability in the operating system's Bluetooth stack, even though Microsoft released a Critical patch addressing the issue on June 10, 2008. MS08-030 was designed to patch a critical security flaw in the Bluetooth stack affectin... |
20 June 2008
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Although Windows Vista SP1 was released to manufacturing just four months ago, at the start of February, becoming available for download on March 18, 2008, Microsoft is already giving a sneak peek at what the next service pack will feature. In this regard, hotfixes are always items integrated into the service packs f... |
17 June 2008
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Microsoft has yet to wrap up with the distribution of Office 2007 SP1, and is already looking ahead to the next service pack, in a move designed to offer additional choices for end users but also to take interoperability to the next level, in terms of the company's flagship productivity suite. Office 2007 Servic... |
22 May 2008
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Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista was first and foremost designed to soften all the rough edges of the RTM version of the latest Windows operating system. However, this does not mean that SP1 has made Vista perfect, far from it in fact. Even with the first service pack integrated, Windows Vista has problems playing we... |
20 May 2008
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The advent of Windows XP Service Pack 3 has brought with it the proverbial "beginning of the end" for its predecessor, Service Pack 2. As it is customary with Microsoft, the availability of a service pack triggers the start of expiration support for the previous release of a specific product. This is a rule that gove... |
19 May 2008
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Following the releasing to manufacturing of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on February 4, 2008, Microsoft made its own comparison performance. For the operating system responsiveness benchmarking, the Redmond company threw together Vista SP1, Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2 in the same arena. While it was designed as an e... |
28 February 2008
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Free downloads of Microsoft's operating systems have been made available throughout 2007, and the Redmond company is ready to take it one step further. The Redmond company has been offering both the final versions of Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RTM as free downloads, in an initiative addressed at web develo... |
5 February 2008
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Despite the fact that Microsoft's business model is in no way similar to that associated with open source software, the Redmond company does offer free copies of its operating systems. At this point in time, users have available for download no less than two free versions of Windows XP Service Pack 2, as well as... |
23 January 2008
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Although Microsoft has indicated a strong disapproval of benchmarking tests involving development milestones of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the temptation is simply too big to ignore. And the Redmond company has done little not to invite the operating system measuring contest that throws Vista and XP together in th... |
17 January 2008
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That's right! Microsoft is currently cooking two free editions of Windows XP Service Pack 2 that will be up for grabs via the Download Center as early as the beginning of the upcoming week. This is certainly not the first time when the Redmond company has shown signs of generosity with its Windows client in an ... |
29 November 2007
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Six minutes... that is all it took to hack Windows XP, and to completely take over the operating system. Nick McGrath, Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft U.K., witnessing the XP hack first hand, described the effortless attack and compromising of the platform as "enlightening and frightening." The hack was pe... |
13 November 2007
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Microsoft is offering free downloads of Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2. The fact of the matter is that Windows XP Embedded SP2 Evaluation Edition is worth no less than 120-days of free trial since the moment of the deployment. Although the Redmond company is also offering Embedded versions of its latest operating... |
4 September 2007
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There are two versions of Windows XP Service Pack 2 that Microsoft will deliver as free downloads, cooking over at the Redmond company. Both releases are scheduled to become available in no more than a day. Microsoft has produced an extensive collection of free downloads associated with some of its top products and c... |
15 August 2007
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In Microsoft's perspective, there is little difference between its own Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Mac OS X Tiger, Apple's currently available operating system for the Mac platform. As a matter of fact, the boundary that separates Windows XP and Tiger is not even a thin line, it has melted away and is blu... |
13 August 2007
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Microsoft released the second service pack for Windows XP in August 2004. Almost three years after that point the company begins distributing Windows XP SP2 once again via Automatic Updates, but this time for Windows XP Professional x64. There is the generalized belief that between Windows XP in 2001 and Windows Vist... |
8 June 2007
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Microsoft is getting closer to the date synonymous with the release of Windows Server 2003 via Automatic Updates. The second service pack for Windows Server 2003, was made available in mid March 2007. The Windows Server Division took its due time producing the service pack, as the release candidate was launched back ... |
24 May 2007
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Microsoft plans to follow up on upgrading the Office 2003 System just three months after the Redmond Company has made the 2007 Office System available to the general public alongside Windows Vista, on January 30, 2007. According to Microsoft, the third service pack for Office 2003 will be focused on enhancing the sec... |
27 April 2007
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In the recent period, Microsoft used to deliver more and more updates for its products because it is very important for its users to cover critical holes discovered in its tools. Take for example Internet Explorer that is often regarded as one of the most vulnerable browsers in comparison to Mozilla's Firefox, t... |
9 March 2007
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