Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been released to manufacturing. The roll-out to end-users will begin in mid-March although not everyone will see it then. Microsoft has identified some drivers that work fine in the gold release of Vista but do not work with SP1. So if Microsoft detects those drivers on your PC you [...]
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Another second Tuesday of the month and another set of Microsoft patches. I realize it’s important to patch vulnerabilities as soon as possible and this monthly release schedule tends to go against that, but I like the consistency and ability to plan.
Anyway, this week brought two patches. The first is MS08-001 titled “Vulnerabilities [...]
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Yesterday was patch Tuesday for December and Microsoft released seven security bulletins. There weren’t any Office updates but there were updates for all supported OS’s - Windows 2000 Professional SP4 to Windows XP SP2, and Windows Vista - along with updates for Internet Explorer 6 and IE 7. All the updates are available through [...]
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This week was almost all about Virtual Machines on the Quest. Parallels released a couple of beta updates and eventually the final production release this week. My biggest complaint about Parallels was that the Windows task bar appears in every space even when Parallels is assigned to one space. But the more I used [...]
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Update 9/29 - see end of article.
Microsoft has been found to be sending stealth updates to Windows PCs even if you’ve used the setting to be notified of updates but not to install them.
The updates were first noticed by the folks at Windows Secrets and confirmed by ZDNet.
Microsoft confirmed that they send updates to Windows [...]
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Microsoft released nine security updates this past Tuesday.
When it came time to run Automatic Update on my Windows XP SP2 virtual machine (running under Parallels) I got 12 updates, so Microsoft pushed more than the security updates. The updates broke down as follows (all links are to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article number listed):
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