Microsoft has unveiled the first Windows XP security rollup, a collection of 22 previously-available patches for that operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Update Rollup 1, which has been in beta testing for the past month, is being positioned by Microsoft as a more convenient way for users to deploy patches they might have missed when the original vulnerabilities — and associated security bulletins — were posted on the company’s Web site.<\/p>\n
When discussion of the Rollup first started, analysts saw it as an attempt by Microsoft to provide an interim pack of security updates prior to the release of a second Service Pack for Windows XP, which at that point wasn’t expected until the middle of 2004.<\/p>\n
As recently as last week, however, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in a wide-ranging talk about Microsoft’s security plans, repeated that Service Pack 2 (SP2) would not release until the half-way point of next year.<\/p>\n
No matter what the time frame for SP2, the recently-released rollup meets only half of the criteria that analyst Michael Cherry, of Directions on Microsoft, a research firm that tracks Microsoft’s moves in the marketplace, thinks is necessary for success.<\/p>\n
Such a CD would be a better way to get the 9MB rollup out to customers, such as consumers and small business users, who access the Internet through slow dial-up connections.<\/p>\n
One way that the rollup may be used, he added, would be by OEMs, which could conceivably add it to their Windows XP distributions they pre-load on new PCs.<\/p>\n
In his speech last week at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Ballmer announced that the Redmond, Wash.-based developer would switch to a monthly schedule for non-critical security updates, replacing the sporadic Wednesday bulletins and patches.<\/p>\n
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