By ray | September 14, 2007
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 [...]
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):
Security Update [...]
http://news.com.com/Next+version+of+Windows+Call+it+7/2100-1016_3-6197943.html?tag=nefd.lede
CNet has a story that Microsoft will be releasing the next version of Windows (known internally as Windows 7) in “roughly three years”. Let’s hold off on the snide comments for now.
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http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/
Microsoft has released Windows Home Server to manufacturing (RTM). According to the Home Server blog post it should be available in a couple of months. Windows Home Server will only be available through hardware manufacturers. This seems to have the potential to be a really cool product from Microsoft that can serve as a media [...]
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There’s a couple of updates to last Tuesday’s Microsoft patches that are worth mentioning.
First, Microsoft updated MS07-036 to include Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac as a vulnerable application. So if you run Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac you’ll need to patch it. I don’t run the software so can’t say how the patch works. The [...]
It’s the second Tuesday of July and that means patches from Microsoft. This month brings six patches, three rated critical, two important, and one moderate. Only five patches are for desktop software and Windows Vista also gets its own unique patch although it’s the one rated moderate. Of these, only the .NET patches and [...]
