I've blogged previously about how confusing our servicing story is for .NET Framework 1.1 on Windows Server 2003 and 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Now there's a new KB article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base to help customers understand and address these and other issues regarding .NET Framework 1.1 on various operating systems. Check it out: KB915756.

You may have noticed that I haven't been maintaining this blog recently. Some life changes have happened in my life and as a result I am no longer actively working on "Update deployment for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework." Specifically, I've gotten...

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My name is Blair Neumann and I am the Microsoft Program Manager in charge of update deployment for the Developer Division Customer Product-lifecycle Experience (DD.CPX) team. That's a long way of saying that I am the person in charge of getting product updates (service packs and hotfixes) for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework into distribution channels like Windows Update, Microsoft Update, and the Microsoft Download Center. Okay, that was longer.

In the bad old days, before specialized update deployment program management, it was the responsibility of the update release manager to deploy their own updates. And in a sense, things haven't really changed so much from the bad old days, except that they have. Let me explain.