The forthcoming Service Pack 2 for Windows XP is actually a significant upgrade for Microsoft's OS, delivering much-needed security enhancements. We highlight the key changes. Service Pack 1 (SP1) for ...

Microsoft is starting to push Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 7 users via Windows Update, ahead of the early April end-of-support date for the RTM version of the product. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech ...

Service Packs are Microsoft's way of "rolling up" a bunch of fixes to their Windows operating system into a one-time installation. They are important because, even if your computer is running smoothly ...

Microsoft this week rolled out Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in its "release to manufacturing" form. The release-to-manufacturing designation typically means that the ...

Microsoft posted the second release candidate for Windows XP Service Pack 2, but the software giant is refusing to say when it hopes to ship the final version of the service pack, which amounts to a ...

Dubbed the "Unofficial Windows 98 SE Service Pack 2.0," the update is a collection of fixes posted by Microsoft, as well as other enhancements added by Alper Coskun, a Turkish computer engineering ...

I’ll get right to it: anyone using a mature copy of Windows 7 (as opposed to a new computer or a newly installed copy) should not install Service Pack 1 (SP1). This is not a knock on Microsoft, ...

Microsoft has updated the Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit to include Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. As has been the case with previous service packs, soon after SP1 ...

Microsoft yesterday modified its support policy on service packs, and will now take calls from customers running outdated editions of Windows. The move coincided with the company pulling the plug on ...