December 07, 2007 by
Jason
Microsoft is on the verge of making available the third and final service pack for Windows XP. Long overdue following numerous updates, Windows XP SP3 will hit by mid 2008. This much is certain, as the Redmond company has debuted the testing for the operating system’s service pack all the way back in July 2007. A near final Release Candidate build of XP SP3 is currently available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers with a public version looming on the horizon. In this context, Microsoft published an official overview of XP SP3.
“Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released Windows XP updates, including security updates and hotfixes. It also includes select out-of-band releases, and a small number of new enhancements, which do not significantly change customers experience with the operating system. Read More»
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Microsoft Corp. today unveiled the second stage of its April security updates by releasing five security bulletins that patched eight vulnerabilities — including one that was missed during the company’s Windows Vista beta testing and ended up in the final version of the new operating system.
Of the four updates that addressed bugs in Windows, the MS07-021 update was clearly the one to patch pronto, said researchers. “This is my first [to patch] choice,” said Amol Sarwate, manager of Qualys Inc.’s research lab. “It affects everyone,” agreed Minoo Hamilton, senior security researcher with patch management vendor nCircle Network Security Inc. Read More»
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Microsoft on Tuesday plans to push out a fix to repair problems caused by last week’s emergency cursor flaw patch. The fix will be delivered as a “high priority” update alongside Microsoft’s regular security updates, Christopher Budd, a Microsoft security staffer wrote on a corporate blog on Friday.
Microsoft has identified three additional applications that conflict with last week’s “critical” MS07-017 security update. Originally the company listed only the Realtek HD Audio Control Panel as software that would not function and cause error messages to appear. CD-Tag, ElsterFormular and TUGZip have been added to that list. “While the impact of these issues is clearly not widespread, it is affecting some of our customers,” Budd wrote. Read More»
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