Microsoft regularly releases major updates to its Windows operating systems. Formerly, those updates were pushed through comprehensive service packs, but more often these days, they're semi-regular ...

Microsoft’s long-awaited and much-delayed update to its Windows operating system — officially called Windows XP Service Pack 2 — is finally ready and will be released to consumers later this month, ...

Just three days after a Microsoft vice president--who is in charge of Microsoft.com and Windows Update--told thousands of delegates at a conference in Florida that Service Pack 2 for Windows XP would ...

“ [We] will be doing serious testing in a non-work environment one month after the service pack is released. Once the non-work environment testing is completed we will move to step 2, testing one ...

IT shops have been kicking and screaming since last August, avoiding Windows Service Pack 2 at all costs. Those days are over—you can no longer refuse to drink the Kool-Aid (although, in my experience ...

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 amounts to a major “life event” for companies using the Windows platform. The update represents a major step forward in security, and many organizations will ...