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On December 13th, Microsoft announced the release of a new set of security updates for its Windows platform and for other products, and one of these was aimed at patching vulnerabilities found in Internet Explorer. Three vulnerabilities have been recently found in Internet Explorer, the most severe of which could ... |
15 December 2011
05:45 GMT |
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The restarts accompanying the Windows updating experience will be less intrusive for customers running Windows 8, Microsoft promises.
Essentially, the company worked to increase the predictability of restarts associated with delivering updates, minimizing their number and impact on user experience, while not losing... |
15 November 2011
03:05 GMT |
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Customers running version 14.0 of the Windows Live Toolbar will be able to upgrade seamlessly to the new Bing Bar 7.0, with Microsoft serving the new toolbar through Windows Update. The Redmond company has confirmed via KB 2549984, that Bing Bar version 7.0 is provided as an update through WU to those customers that... |
18 August 2011
07:14 GMT |
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Last week brought with it the first month anniversary for Internet Explorer 9, counting from the moment the browser was released to web. This week brings with it another milestone in IE9’s release process, as Microsoft will start rolling out the successor of IE8 to Windows 7 and Windows Vista SP2 users worldwi... |
18 April 2011
04:56 GMT |
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Modifications made as part of a Windows update released by Microsoft this week effectively kill the notorious TDL4 rootkit on 64-bit Windows Vista and 7.Since 64-bit Windows only accepts digitally-signed drivers, there are very few rootkits that manage to infect such systems.One of them is TDL4, the latest version fr... |
16 April 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Customers running Windows 7 and Windows Vista are starting to see automatic upgrades to Internet Explorer 9 RTW being offered to them through Windows Update. The Redmond company had already started offering IE9 RTW to early adopters involved in the testing process for the Beta or Release Candidate (RC) development m... |
7 April 2011
10:23 GMT |
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Microsoft has released an out-of-band Windows update aimed at blacklisting several digital certificates obtained fraudulently from Comodo a week ago.According to Comodo, a Certification Authority (CA) trusted by default in all Windows versions and browsers, hackers obtained access to one of its European resellers... |
24 March 2011
08:22 GMT |
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The March 2011 Security Release ISO Image is available for download from Microsoft, accompanying the release of this month’s patches through Windows Update. As usual, the ISO image packs the security updates offered by the Redmond company for the supported versions of the Windows operating systems. Seeing how... |
10 March 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Yes, the Windows client is evolving (could it be any other way?), and a recently leaked Windows 8 screenshot seems to be offering a glimpse of one change introduced since Windows 7 was released. As it’s heading toward Milestone 3, Windows 8 becomes available for testing to more and more early adopters. Illustr... |
23 February 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Security researchers from Sophos warn of a new malware distribution campaign that tries to pass an AutoRun worm as a critical Windows security update.The spam emails bear a subject of "Update your Windows" and their header is forged to appear as if they originate from a no-reply@microsft.com [intentional domain typo]... |
4 January 2011
11:57 GMT |
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How about this for a New Year’s resolution: I will not/no longer fall victim to social engineering schemes. It’s really not that difficult, all that users have to do is mind the source that’s offering them downloads, updates, free software, or any other type of incentive, but also unsolicited antiv... |
4 January 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Almost a month since Windows Live Essentials 2011 hit the Release to Web (RTW) milestone, Microsoft is gearing up to deliver automatic upgrades for all users with Windows releases that support the latest major iteration of Windows Live Essentials. Windows Live Essentials 2011 will be served automatically to customer... |
21 October 2010
07:30 GMT |
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A note on Apple’s web site reveals that a new version of QuickTime is now available for Windows PC users. The update fixes a security issue affecting Windows 7, Vista, and XP SP2 (or later).Softpedia reported late last month that a highly critical remote code execution vulnerability had been discovered in the l... |
13 August 2010
03:15 GMT |
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Amongst more important updates like iOS 4.0.1 and iPad 3.2.1, Apple has released an updated to MobileMe Control Panel for Windows, a utility employed by PC users to manage a number of MobileMe features like iDisk, calendars and contact syncing.“MobileMe Control Panel is required to manage iDisk settings and for... |
19 July 2010
09:36 GMT |
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The final version of Windows PowerShell 2.0, which is included by default in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, is now being served to customers running older versions of the Windows client and server operating systems through Windows Update. In this regard, Microsoft is now offering two components of the Windows ... |
23 June 2010
07:40 GMT |
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Microsoft is currently testing the distribution of a key component belonging to its next generation development platform and tools through Windows Update. In the coming weeks, early adopters will be able to grab the second Beta development milestone not only as a standalone download but also through Windows Update. T... |
19 January 2010
07:29 GMT |
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Series intro The Internet is certainly one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind. It helped open the road to unprecedented levels of innovation and communication between people. But, life on the Internet is by no means perfect. Numerous gangs of cyber-criminals lurk in the Internet's underground... |
19 December 2009
09:41 GMT |
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Malware distributors continue resorting to the fake software update lure for their email spam campaigns. The latest attack poses as a notification regarding a Windows security bulletin, which links to a malicious executable.The rogue emails impersonate Steve Lipner, Microsoft’s Director of Security Assurance, w... |
7 December 2009
06:43 GMT |
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According to Microsoft, Windows 7 RTM users that simply ask too much of Windows Update are bound not only to get nothing in return, but be served with error codes instead of the refreshes they might be looking for. Windows Update 800705B4, 80070008, or 8007000e are the specific error codes served to Windows use... |
2 December 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Microsoft has started rolling out updates designed to kick up a notch its Windows Update infrastructure. As of August 17th, 2009, the company gave the green light to refreshes for Windows Update, starting the updating process that will span over the course of the next few months. The refresh is designed to catalyze t... |
18 August 2009
09:23 GMT |
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Come August 2009 Microsoft will release an upgrade to its update infrastructure. The Redmond company pointed out that both the Windows Update and Microsoft Update services would be impacted by the refresh. At the same time, the upgrade will not be limited to the infrastructure itself, but will also affect the client-... |
13 July 2009
12:18 GMT |
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Microsoft released a new wave of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 packages on June 30, 2009. At over two months since Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 were released to manufacturing, the Redmond company is making sure that customers worldwide will be able to integrate the second service pack for the two plat... |
1 July 2009
11:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is investigating reports that updates are silently forced into Windows operating systems. The company has indicated that it is aware of customers claiming to be affected by the issue, but has failed so far to either confirm or deny the cases reported. Users indicated that Windows XP and Windows Vista could ... |
29 June 2009
11:55 GMT |
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Microsoft is providing Windows users with an automatic method designed to reset the components associated with Windows Update. WU is an integral part of every Windows platform, and one aspect of Microsoft's infrastructure designed to deliver updates for the company's software solutions. As with any other pr... |
25 May 2009
05:17 GMT |
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Just as it was the case with Windows 7 Beta Build 7000, Microsoft is debuting testing of its Windows Update infrastructure with the latest development milestone of the next iteration of the Windows client. Windows 7 Release Candidate Build 7100 is scheduled to receive test updates on May 12, 2009, the Redmond company... |
11 May 2009
02:04 GMT |
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At the start of April 2009, Microsoft made available for download the first service pack for SQL Server 2008. The end of this month will make the Redmond company's next move in the strategy designed to serve SP1 for the latest iteration of its data platform. In this regard, the software giant announced that a fe... |
24 April 2009
04:37 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up to start serving automatic upgrades to Internet Explorer 8. Fact is that the Redmond company has already debuted the Automatic distribution of its latest iteration of IE. In this regard, the software giant confirmed that IE8 RTW (release to web) was already offered via Automatic Update/Windows... |
13 April 2009
02:51 GMT |
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Microsoft is finding itself on the spot yet again because of intellectual property infringement claims made by BackWeb Technologies. BackWeb has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court in San Francisco, California, accusing the software giant that it is violating no less than four of its patents with the ... |
26 March 2009
07:21 GMT |
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Testers that have downloaded, installed and are now running the next iteration of the Windows client in Beta stage will begin to see updates being available for the operating system, starting today, February 24, 2009. Microsoft announced since last week that it planned to release a handful of refreshes as an integral... |
24 February 2009
09:58 GMT |
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Just because Windows 7 Build 7000 is a Beta release doesn't mean that Microsoft is not tending to its software. The Redmond company has already released security patches designed to resolve Critical vulnerabilities in the operating system, and has revealed that it will also offer updates for the operating system... |
26 January 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Starting on November 25, Microsoft made available an update to its home server operating system. The November 2008 refresh to Windows Home Server will be served automatically to all users via Windows Update. Microsoft is describing the release designed to take Windows Home Server to version 6.0.1800.24 as a minor up... |
26 November 2008
05:27 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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Users of embedded devices and mobile phones running the Windows Mobile operating system need to get ready for an updating infrastructure and experience similar to that offered by Microsoft for its client and server platforms including the recent releases of Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3. A... |
5 August 2008
07:17 GMT |
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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
07:40 GMT |
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Robert Hensing, Microsoft Security Software Engineer, was quick to point the finger at what he referred to as insecure third party software updaters, offering a "well deserved" fail open goat award to a variety of product makers including Sun and Apple. Michael Howard, a Senior Security Program Manager in the Securit... |
30 July 2008
06:18 GMT |
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A major update is coming to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, but Microsoft guarantees that end users won't feel a thing. However, they will enjoy the benefits introduced by the refresh, as the very back-end updating infrastructure of the Windows clients will be kicked up a notch along ... |
4 July 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Over two months since it was released to manufacturing, and just a week short of the first month since general availability, Microsoft is now showing strong movement on the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RTM front. Even before Vista SP1 went gold, Microsoft started serving three updates designed to prepare RTM operatin... |
8 April 2008
13:26 GMT |
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Microsoft officially confirmed the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 downloads at the end of the past week. On February 21, 2008, the gold bits of Windows Vista SP1 were offered for download via Windows Update. The move was a derail from the timetable set for the delivery of the RTM Build of Vista SP1, initially planned f... |
25 February 2008
12:44 GMT |
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In another move coming out of nowhere, unconfirmed and unannounced through official channels, Microsoft has now apparently started serving the 64-bit variant of Vista SP1 RTM to end users. The availability of the first service pack for Windows Vista does by no means fall under the category of standard Microsoft relea... |
21 February 2008
14:54 GMT |
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Although it is on the verge of releasing the first service pack for Windows Vista, Microsoft has not stopped hammering away at the operating system via Windows Update. The Redmond company is currently in a transition process, subtle as it might be. A migration from a strategy focused on delivering major updates for i... |
24 January 2008
05:47 GMT |
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Want a taste of the new level of reliability and performance that Service Pack 1 will deliver to Windows Vista in the first quarter of 2008? Well, thanks to the Windows Update infrastructure Vista, users are able to access in advance a slice of Vista SP1. The fact of the matter is that Microsoft is delivering a previ... |
17 December 2007
12:05 GMT |
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A fresh update is available from Microsoft focusing on the microcode reliability of both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista in scenarios where the operating system is integrated with Intel processors. Microsoft informed that the microcode reliability update for Intel processors does not impact only Windows Vista but als... |
27 November 2007
03:55 GMT |
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The Application Compatibility Toolkit is a resource put together by Microsoft and designed to offer the necessary tools and documentation in order to streamline the deployment of Windows Vista, a Windows update or the latest version of Internet Explorer. The toolkit will help with the evaluation of an environment, th... |
13 November 2007
09:27 GMT |
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Microsoft denies having been caught with its hand in your Windows Vista cookie jar. Following the release of the October 9 security bulletins, in accordance with the company's monthly patch cycle, reports ensued pointing that Microsoft was altering the users' copies of the Vista operating system without bot... |
18 October 2007
03:59 GMT |
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Although September was a slow month in terms of the volume of security updates released - only four patches for just as many vulnerabilities - the releases were not without their small surprises. After in August, Microsoft's patch cycle managed to catalyze a Skype outage due to the fact that it exposed a bug in ... |
14 September 2007
09:56 GMT |
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Microsoft has issued an official response to reports that it is altering files in both Windows Vista and Windows XP via the Windows Update infrastructure without providing any information to end users in this regard, and without bothering to seek authorization. The Redmond company aimed to clarify the issue related t... |
14 September 2007
03:15 GMT |
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Microsoft has completely taken the end user off of the equation for updating the Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems, with a set of refreshes made available at the end of the past month. The Redmond company has pushed a collection of 18 updates for both Vista and XP, that installed on the operating systems... |
13 September 2007
06:48 GMT |
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Skype clarified the association of Microsoft's Windows Updates with the Voice over Internet Protocol service's critical system crash on August 16. The initial explanation presented by Skype about the two days long disruption referred to a large volume of simultaneous reboots caused by the worldwide deployme... |
22 August 2007
08:53 GMT |
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Following its extensive outage began on August 16, Skype pointed to Microsoft as the source of the disruption, holding the Redmond company indirectly responsible for throwing the Voice over Internet Protocol service into approximately two days of downtime. Initially, Skype's Villu Arak failed to reference Micros... |
21 August 2007
03:41 GMT |
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