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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 SP2 and
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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 some
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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, be
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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 XP images
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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 an express
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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
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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
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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 coming
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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 been able
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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”
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There have been some questions raised about how we service the Windows Update components and concerns expressed about software installing silently. I want to clarify the issue so that everyone can better understand why the self-updating of Windows Update
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Hi all, Quick update regarding .NET Framework 3.0 and it’s availability through Windows Update/Microsoft Update. From the .NET folks… “We’ve suspended the release of localized versions of the .NET Framework 3.0 via Windows Update, due to a discovery of
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