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New IE8 RTW Releases Scheduled for September 22nd via WSUS

Microsoft is not yet done with the delivery of Internet Explorer 8 RTW to business users. The company started offering the gold version of IE8 via Windows Server Update Services on August 25th, 2009, as I told you yesterday. However, the will be an additional wave of downloads for WSUS admins to deal with on Septembe...

26 August 2009
06:40 GMT

New IE8 RTW Downloads Wave Available for Business Users

Microsoft is pushing forward with the availability process of Internet Explorer 8, with a new wave of downloads scheduled to hit today, August 25th, 2009. The Redmond company announced since the end of June 2009 that it would start serving IE8 RTW to business users by the end of August, and the bits come right on sch...

25 August 2009
03:13 GMT

XP SP3 Installation Failure Errors 0x8007f00d and 0x8007f02b

A change in Windows' complex and interconnected architecture of components can easily reverberate throughout the operating system. It is the case of the Critical Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-010, a security update designed to deal with vulnerabilities in WordPad and Office Text Converters which could allow r...

8 July 2009
09:03 GMT

Get Ready for a New Wave of IE8 RTW Upgrades via WSUS

Microsoft is gearing up for yet another chapter in the availability of Internet Explorer 8. In this regard, the Redmond company will release a new wave of IE8 RTW upgrades via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) in just a couple of months. Affected are business customers that use WSUS in order to manage the updates...

30 June 2009
11:19 GMT

Microsoft Re-Releases Forefront Client Security Update on WSUS

Microsoft has re-released an update to the Forefront Client Security on Windows Server Update Services. The refresh went live on WSUS on June 18, 2009, and was designed to integrate with the version 1 of the FCS antimalware engine.Following launch, the Redmond-based company started to receive feedback from customers ...

22 June 2009
06:56 GMT

Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0 Available

Microsoft has taken its Solution Accelerator design to update offline virtual machines to the next level. The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool version 2.0 went live on the Microsoft Download Center on November 24, 2008, and is now available for download. The Solution Accelerator enables Microsoft System Center ...

25 November 2008
06:40 GMT

Windows Update Agent Update Rolls Out

Announced as early a July 2008, a new update for the Windows Update Agent will be rolled out today, Monday, November 3. At the end of October, Microsoft offered a heads up for customers to prepare for the start of this week when the standalone WUA update was scheduled to become available. The Redmond company updates ...

3 November 2008
07:20 GMT

Insight into Windows Update for Vista and XP

Microsoft is continuously tending to its Windows client and server operating systems ensuring not only that the rough edges of the products are softened, but also dealing with security vulnerabilities, and securing the overall evolution in addition to service pack releases. In this context, Windows Update plays a key...

1 October 2008
09:26 GMT

Windows 7 Beta Is on the Horizon, Forget XP SP3 and Vista SP1

The first Beta of Windows 7 is on the horizon, and in this context it's right about time to look beyond Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The next iteration of the Windows client has been a palpable presence only through the Milestone 1 build dropped at the end of 2007, with the Redmond...

22 August 2008
03:25 GMT

Microsoft Is Gearing Up for Windows 7 Downloads

Even with Microsoft increasingly opening up on Windows Vista's successor, the hunger for Windows 7 details is far from being satiated. This because the Redmond giant, through Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, continues to be firmly in control of all the informati...

20 August 2008
10:33 GMT

New Wave of Vista SP1 RTM Standalone Downloads from Microsoft

Over six months since the RTM of Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft has made available a new wave of downloads with the gold bits of the service pack. In this manner, Vista SP1 continues toward the finish line of the availability process. Having been released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, along with Windows Server ...

17 July 2008
03:29 GMT

The Vista SP1 and XP SP3 WU Refresh Impacts the Entire Update Infrastructure

At the end of the past week, Microsoft announced a refresh to the Windows Update agent in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. However, accompanying the new version of the Windows Update client being rolled out to Windows users, there is an infrastructure update which spans well beyond Vista SP...

8 July 2008
08:26 GMT

Vista SP1 Release Follows XP SP3 to WSUS

Microsoft is closing in on the final stage of Windows Vista SP1's availability. In this context, the service pack is being wrapped up for delivery through Windows Server Update Services. Windows Vista SP1 was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, and to the general public on March 18. In addition, the a...

20 June 2008
06:52 GMT

Microsoft's Genuine Advantage Watchdog Got to Roam Free

Microsoft acknowledged the existence of an unspecified error which permitted the company's Genuine Advantage watchdog for the Office platform to roam free this past week. Cori Hartje, director of the Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative, announced as early as April 8 that, just like Windows, the Office System w...

21 April 2008
06:47 GMT

With IE8 and Firefox 3.0 in Sight Microsoft Initiates the Final Push of IE7

With Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.0 in sight, Microsoft is preparing to initiate the final push for Internet Explorer 7. IE7 RTM'd at the end of 2006, just a few weeks ahead of Firefox 2.0. In October 2006, Microsoft dropped the final version of IE7 for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003. Internet Explo...

12 February 2008
10:14 GMT

Windows Vista SP1 Cannot Be Downloaded on Windows Server 2003

Although Microsoft has failed to confirm the date when the code for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will go gold, all indications point to mid-February 2008 for the releasing to manufacturing of the refresh. Following the RTM of Vista SP1, it will be served as an update through Microsoft Update. In this regard, Dustin J...

29 January 2008
05:07 GMT

A New Wave of Internet Explorer 7 Upgrades Is Coming on February 12, 2008

A new wave of Internet Explorer 7 upgrades is planned for release on February 12, 2008. The Windows Internet Explorer 7 Installation and Availability update will be dropped via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) early next month under the form of an Update Rollup package. Essentially, the Windows Internet Explore...

15 January 2008
05:43 GMT

Update Availability - Office 2007 Service Pack 1

Microsoft accompanied the business and consumer launches of the Windows Vista operating system in November 2006 and January 2007, with the release of the Office 2007 System. Then, in mid 2007, the first pre-beta testing versions of Office 2007 SP1 came on the heels of the initial builds of Windows Vista Service Pack ...

13 December 2007
07:26 GMT

Windows Server Update Services Choke on an Error

Microsoft's Windows Server Update Services infrastructure has managed to choke on an error and lock users out just ahead of the November release of security bulletins and adjacent updates. Microsoft started receiving feedback from users clamming that access was discontinued to the administration consoles. The Re...

13 November 2007
12:39 GMT

Microsoft Offers 4,000 Updates for 32- and 64-bit Vista on Top of ATI Radeon Graphics Cards

There is a veritable flood of ATI Radeon graphics card updates available from Microsoft. In fact, the volume of driver updates designed to address both 32-bit and 64-bit copies of Windows Vista running on systems also using ATI Radeon graphics cards is close to 40,000, as Microsoft explained. In the recent period, Wi...

10 September 2007
10:36 GMT

Microsoft Cooks New Windows Live Categories

Microsoft is currently cooking a revamp to the collection of Windows Live categories. According to the Redmond company, the new and modified categories for the Windows Live product family will be made available via WSUS at the beginning of September. However, back in June, Chris Jones, corporate vice president, Windo...

5 September 2007
03:39 GMT

Microsoft WSUS 3.0 Is Live - But Still No Extras for Windows Vista

Microsoft Windows Server Update Services version 3.0 went live as of yesterday April 30, 2007, and was immediately made available for download via the Microsoft Download Center. WSUS 3.0 is designed to integrate seamlessly into corporate environments and to deliver updates from Microsoft Update. WSUS3Setupx64.exe and...

1 May 2007
03:03 GMT

More Windows Vista SP1 Goodies

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 details are scarce. This is because of Microsoft's new Windows omerta that extends beyond Windows Seven, the operating system designed to succeed Windows Vista, across a variety of company products under development. However, as details, we sometimes get a few crumbs from Microsoft&#...

19 April 2007
03:39 GMT

Windows Vista Ultimate Extras via WSUS

Windows Vista Ultimate users behind Windows Server Update Services have found that the ultimate Extras designed exclusively for their edition of the operating system are not available for download. More specific, computers that are administered via WSUS 2.5 will not have access to DreamScene and the other Ultimate Ex...

18 April 2007
07:16 GMT


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