Hi everyone – Thought I’d drop a line and remind you that we’re planning to release Windows Search 4.0 ( KB940157 ) via Windows Update sometime in late July. Windows Search 4.0 updates previous versions of Search in Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP...

Hi everyone, I'd like to let you know that, beginning at the end of this month and continuing over the next few months, we’ll be rolling out an infrastructure update to the Windows Update agent (client). I wanted to take this opportunity to provide...

Hi there - Quick reminder for all of you out there who helped test Windows Vista SP1 and may still be running Release Candidate builds (any build less than 6.0.6001.18000) . The RC builds will expire on June 30th - so if you happen to running one...

Hi all, If you use Microsoft Office, a great new resource has recently come online to help you understand how Office updates work. The Office Sustained Engineering blog features release announcements, known issues, explanations of update behavior...

We'd like to provide more information and address reports you may have heard about "continuous reboot loops" occurring upon the update to Windows XP SP3. After investigation, we’ve determined this problem occurs on AMD-based machines with Windows...

Hi folks; Just wanted to give you an early heads up. Office 2007 SP1 will be available to Automatic Update in mid-June. For all the details, see the Office Sustained Engineering Blog post here. Thanks! The MU Team

Hello, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now available on Windows Update (and the Microsoft Download Center)! If you'd like to install it via WU today, you'll need to visit the Windows Update website. To do this, go to Windows Update and perform...

IT Pros & WSUS admins, We are excited about Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and the benefits it provides. We made all 36 languages of SP1 available on Windows Update earlier this week, and we’re planning to begin automatic distribution of SP1 in...

Good afternoon folks! As you may know, Hyper-V Release Candidate (RC) was made available on March 19th via the Microsoft Download Center . Tomorrow, we are making the RC package available as an Optional Update via Windows Update for all Windows...

Back in February, we posted about the release of a couple of prerequisites for Windows Vista Service Pack 1. While several million customers installed the updates successfully, you may have read that a few customers experienced an endless reboot cycle...

Hi all, Today we made Windows Vista SP1 available for Windows Vista systems in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. What does this mean for you? Well, here are some details of what you can expect: Windows Update Users (or...

Office 2003 SP3 has been available interactively on MU for many months now, but, as you may remember from our post last month, today marks the beginning of automatic distribution to MU users. We've heard great feedback from customers who've already...

Hi all, This week we're releasing two more prerequisites for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 that will be coming later this quarter. We wanted to let you know about them because they are both marked as Important updates (and they’re a little different...

Hey Folks: Just wanted to give you a heads up on our promised 30 days notice before making Office 2003 SP3 available via Microsoft Update automatic distribution (for Vista and XP). We released SP3 for Office 2003 to customers about 4 months ago...

Next Tuesday, 1/22/08, we are adding a new product family to your WSUS server - Expression . The Expression product family will include updates for all Expression products, including service packs, optional updates, and critical or security updates. For...

We are also excited to announce a new product named Silverlight , is being made available to Microsoft Update site and WSUS customers Tuesday, January 22nd! The Silverlight product family will include installers and updates for the Silverlight browser...

We had a small number of early customer reports, that in some cases, this update (KB935509) was being offered for installation on all Windows Vista editions vs. just Ultimate and Enterprise. A quick adjustment of the applicability logic was released shortly...

Hi all, Just dropping a quick line to let you know about one of the updates we're releasing this week to Windows Update (it's a little different than usual). The update, KB935509, is a prerequisite to Windows Vista Service Pack 1, which will be...

Today we have released an update preview release for Windows Vista on the Microsoft Download Center. Today's update release preview is targeted toward improving reliability and performance in Windows Vista. The Windows Serviceability Team is releasing...

Hi folks - Posting this as I've noted just a little bit of confusion with how Office 2007 SP1 is made available for download after it's release yesterday. As you know, Office 2007 SP1 was released yesterday to Microsoft Update, and to WSUS as part...

Today, Windows Live will release two additional critical updates: 1. Update for Windows Live Photo Gallery (KB 944990) 2. Update For Windows Live Toolbar (KB 944786) Update for Windows Live Photo Gallery (KB 944990) This critical update...

Today Windows Live will ship two updates: 1. Update for Windows Live Mail (KB 944990) 2. Update for Windows Live Writer (KB 944990) These updates will apply to all Windows Live Mail Beta and Windows Live Writer Beta users. The RTM version...

A quick note regarding automatic update settings getting changed... We have been hearing some questions recently regarding Tuesday’s update release changing automatic updating settings. We have received some logs from customers, and have so far...

A new product family called Microsoft HealthVault is being added. Microsoft HealthVault enables consumers to store health and fitness information for themselves and their family in a single place in the cloud, and manage their wellness in new ways with...

We received reports today that some Windows XP customers haven’t been able to install updates from Windows Update/Microsoft Update with the latest version of the Windows Update client. We are only seeing this issue when users have performed a “repair...