It was supposed to solve the gaping holes in Windows XP's defences almost at a stroke, and in the run-up to its August 2004 launch Microsoft promised an unrelenting campaign to persuade businesses and ...

COMMENTARY--In August 2002, the IT community was abuzz with a Microsoft "breakthrough" called Service Pack 1. The mega software patch mainly comprised of security updates for the company's Windows XP ...

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is set to be released as a public beta version Thursday, Microsoft has confirmed. The program, which has been under limited testing since October, will become available on ...

Today, Microsoft offered its last update for Windows Service Pack 2 (SP2). No future security issues with SP2 will be patched, no matter how severe they may be. Windows XP 64-bit users on SP2 will ...

After a lengthy development cycle that included delays and furious testing, Microsoft has finally given the public Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server ...

Microsoft Corp. will release a major update to the Windows XP computer operating system in August that focuses on boosting protection against malicious intrusions. The company had previously said the ...

If there is one thing Microsoft is preoccupied with right now, it would have to be security. Microsoft is in the news more for security problems with Windows (whether fairly or not) than any other ...

On the plus side, SP2 should improve controls in the Outlook e-mail program, bolster security in the Internet Explorer browser and provide users with more information and input over numerous security ...

On the desktop side, Office 2007 SP2 makes it possible to open, edit and save documents in version 1.1 of the OpenDocument Format for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The ability to save Office files as ...

Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is primarily a collection of previously-released security fixes, with some new additions thrown in for good measure. According to Microsoft, it also includes stability ...