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Microsoft Serves Secret Windows Vista Updates with No User Consent

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

Microsoft Doesn't Own the Universe. Well, Just the World Wide Web

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

Skype: Windows Update Killed Us! Microsoft: We Didn't Do It!

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

Windows Killed Skype

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

Windows Updates on Mac OS X - Not a Microsoft Win, but the Triumph of Virtualization

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

Windows Vista Update - the Service Pack Killer

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

Symantec: Viruses Can Infect Windows Vista via the Windows Update Mechanism

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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