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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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Microsoft alone is responsible for the critical system crash that killed the Skype Voice over Internet Protocol service for no less than two days. Skype's VoIP service became unstable and then completely unavailable following the release of the Redmond company's monthly patch cycle on August 14. Skype'... |
20 August 2007
07:25 GMT |
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This is both a sight for sour eyes and one of the best desktop views you will ever be able to access. A Windows Updates notification on Mac OS X tiger. Of course that the emphasis is immediately placed on the fact that Windows has successfully conquered the Mac OS X desktop. And with the support of virtualization, al... |
15 August 2007
11:18 GMT |
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Microsoft's latest operating system Windows Vista, launched on January 30, 2007, will be the company's first operating system to fully benefit from the years Microsoft has been hammering away at the update infrastructure for its Windows platform. The Redmond Company has in fact used this context in order to... |
29 May 2007
07:53 GMT |
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The next time your Windows Vista operating system downloads and deploys updates, it could in fact install malicious code instead. Security company Symantec has warned that Windows platforms are susceptible to malware infection via the Windows Update mechanism. Security researcher Frank Boldewin has revealed that Tro... |
10 May 2007
10:51 GMT |
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