AutoPatcher August 2007
AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the Internet.
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21.8.2007 AutoPatcher Vista May 2007
This is a complete list of whats included in the English release of AutoPatcher Vista as of the May 2007 release. This Vista release can be applied in any Windows Vista release, independently of the language and the system (32 or 64 bit).
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14.5.2007 Autopatcher Vista February 2007
Thanks to odeeee for this post in our forum. Autopatcher Vista February 2007 Release - All your Vista updates in one place - Updated monthly.
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11.3.2007 AutoPatcher Vista April 2007
This release is based on the all-new AutoPatcher 5.6. It was made for Windows Vista 32 and x64 and is independent of the language of Windows Vista. Thanks to Matt for this download.
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16.4.2007 AutoPatcher Vista July 2007
AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the Internet.
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18.7.2007 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 AutoPatcher February 2007
AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the Internet.
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21.2.2007 Community fights back for AutoPatcher
Microsoft's move this week to close down the AutoPatcher project, a project well known and supported here on Neowin, that allows users to update their computers without requiring an internet connection, has met with cries of outrage from members of the Neowin community, and IT professionals from around the world.
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30.8.2007 DirectX Redistributable 9.0c August 2007 for Windows Vista
Microsoft has made available fresh DirectX downloads for Windows Vista and Windows XP. The Redmond company offered since earlier this week the DirectX End-User Runtimes (August 2007) delivering the updated package of the DirectX end-user redistributable addressed at developers for direct implementation into their own software in order to leverage the graphics technology of the Windows platform.
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11.9.2007 Microsoft Killed AutoPatcher No More Third Party Windows Updates
The AutoPatcher project is dead, courtesy of Microsoft. Antonis Kaladis, AutoPatcher Project Manager broke the news on August 29, revealing that Microsoft killed the initiative designed to supply offline Windows updates.
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29.8.2007 August Microsoft Security Bulletins Posted
The August Microsoft Security Bulletins are now posted and available for download.
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14.8.2007 Internet Explorer 8 - IE8 Beta 2 in August
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates confirmed, at the company's Tech Ed North America 2008 Developers conference on June 3, that the next development milestone of Internet Explorer 8 is
approximately a couple of months away.
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3.6.2008 Connect Beta invitations update (August 2006)
Latest
Microsoft Connect Available Connections (August 06)
Microsoft Math V3 BetaMicrosoft Math is a set of mathematical tools that will help you get your work done quickly and easily.
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30.8.2006 AMD's quad-core Barcelona coming in August
Advanced Micro Devices in August will begin selling its quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron processors, models that answer Intel's current products but soon will face stiffer competition.
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30.6.2007 August 2007 Security Releases ISO Image
This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on August 14th, 2007. The image does not contain security updates for other Microsoft products.
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16.8.2007 Windows Home Server, officially available August 27
If theres one computing server product every enthusiast and home-user should be excited about, that would not be Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition for Itanium-Based Systems..
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17.8.2007 Whats New in Microsoft Land: 13th 17th August 2007
Some say that in order to have a nice week, you have to start with a calm Monday and make all the things enjoyable for yourself.
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19.8.2007 12 fixes planned for August Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has released its latest Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification ready for this months Patch Tuesday.
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8.8.2008 Windows 7 RTM: July? August? September? October?
Rumors and speculation on when Windows 7 will hit the RTM milestone are across the board, but upon closer inspection, they all point to the same thing.
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9.3.2009 Windows 7 Free Ride Over on August 15, 2009
Microsoft will bring the Windows 7 free ride to an end come August 15, 2009. Throughout the development process of new Windows clients, the Redmond-based company is traditionally offering free copies of the operating system to testers.
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24.6.2009 Windows Home Server Dropping in August - September 2007?
Windows Home Server is a product designed to be implemented at the core of a home network. Delivering sharing, back-up, storage and remote access capabilities, Windows Home Server was introduced by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates at CES 2007 in early January.
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6.7.2007 Asus Eee Box desktop to hit UK in August
Good news for fans of those cheap, cheerful and great value PCs from Asus the desktop version of the Eee will be with us in the UK later this summer.
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21.6.2008 Windows 7 Release Candidate downloads will end August 15th
Still on the Windows 7 Beta,? You need to move to the RC and fast. Starting July 1st, the Beta will start to reboot every 2 hrs and expire Aug 1st.
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23.6.2009 Update on Win 7 RTM availability, MSDN and TechNet August 6
Microsoft has just sent word that MSDN and TechNet customers will be able to get hold of Windows 7 RTM on August 6.
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21.7.2009 Microsoft prepares IE7 Beta 3 for a mid-August public release
A Microsoft source has quietly leaked that IE7 Beta 3 will be availible to the public sometime in mid-August of this year. This goes hand-in-hand with official MS reports that they are indeed working on Beta 3 at the moment.
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2.6.2006 Windows 7 RTM coming to MSDN, Technet, and Connect August 6th
After disappointing the many fans that expected Microsoft to announce Windows 7 RTM on July 13th, the Redmond company has yet to announce a date for the RTM.
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22.7.2009 Walmart Ad Has Xbox 360 Price Drop Coming August 8th?
Without seeing the alleged Walmart ad with my own eyes, this is still in BIG RUMOR form.
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29.7.2007 Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool 1.19 (August 2006, KB890830)
The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 computers for and helps remove infections by specific, prevalent malicious softwareincluding Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom.
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8.8.2006 August 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP)of Windows Server "Longhorn" build 5560
Hot on the heels of Windows Vista RC1, we have now released the August 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP)of Windows Server "Longhorn".
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12.9.2006 First Microsoft Genuine Office Validation Download on Download Center
Microsoft has posted the first Office download which has Genuine Office Validation (not required yet). It is sounds.exe the download enables sound in Office 2000,XP and 2003.
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28.4.2006Microsoft Ceases AutoPatcher Project
I had a call from Microsoft Legal this morning and they have told me that we are no longer allowed to endorse AutoPatcher on Neowin.
Microsoft will only allow updates to be downloaded from its own servers.
AutoPatcher started in 2003 and has been redistributed in some
of the worlds best computer magazine cover CD/DVD's. I have no explanation for why Microsoft allowed it to continue unchecked for 4 years before
making this decision.
I asked the representative if Windows Genuine Advantage had anything to do with it and he categorically told me this
was not the case, he added that Windows Update for pre-Vista versions of Windows can now be accessed using Firefox and that the concern at Microsoft
had more to do with the possible malicious code that could be redistributed with certified Microsoft updates.
We have no grounds to
challenge the decision by Microsoft.
I'd like to thank the whole AutoPatcher team for their continued work, unfortunately none of the team
is online, but they have been contacted via the AutoPatcher.com website by Microsoft Legal.
The AutoPatcher forums on Neowin have been
disabled for guests and members.
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29.08.2007Microsoft shuts down popular Windows patching package, AutoPatcher
Microsoft Legal defies logic today by
forcibly removing a free and trustworthy
software package which makes updating Windows more convenient and accessible.
AutoPatcher, for those who dont know, was an impressive
Windows community project that combined publically available
Windows hotfixes and security updates each month to form a single package that could either be installed in a batch or burned on to an CD. To those
who regularly format their computers or fix other peoples computers (for which I share you pain), AutoPatcher not only saves bandwidth but precious
time downloading each individual update from
Windows Update.
It is not hard to imagine AutoPatcher violated some clause in some terms of service
somewhere, but why Microsoft would act on it, and act on it now is unbelievable. If AutoPatcher could be as malicious as Microsoft suggests, then
why havent they acted on it sooner?
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29.08.2007Microsoft Remains Silent on AutoPatcher
Yesterday morning an Internet Investigator representing Microsoft called me at home requesting that Neowin cease all activity with AutoPatcher, a
program headed by Antonis Kaladis and endorsed by Neowin for little under 4 years. Antonis received a standard take down request email through his
AutoPatcher.com email address. We complied by pulling the forums on Neowin and the download page at AutoPatcher.com.
The news was quickly
picked up by the likes of CNET, Slashdot and others but as of this posting we are yet to receive any sort of clear explanation as to why this decision
was made 3 years after the program had been widely adopted by Neowin members, computer magazines and the industries system admins who use the program
to speed up the installing of corporate machines.
A Microsoft Featured Communities representative as well as the Internet Investigator
handling the case has pledged to look into the situation to find out exactly what prompted this sudden move. The only short explanation offered was
the possibility of delivering malicious files with the package, something the AutoPatcher team has never done.
Updates which require WGA
(Windows Genuine Advantage) validation are included, and can be installed (since the WGA validation only takes place on the machine that downloads
them, not the one that is installing them) which theoretically bypasses the validation check users would normally have to go through if updating
through Windows Update. Antonis had asked when WGA became common if this would affect the AutoPatcher project and the concept of administrative
updates and a Microsoft representative said "No", arguing that the purpose behind WGA was mostly educational. The WGA tool itself (the one offered
by Windows Update as a critical update) is included in AutoPacher, though not marked for installation by default.
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30.08.2007AutoPatcher October 2006
AutoPatcher is a comprehensive
collection of patches, addons
and registry tweaks that give
you peace of mind in the
knowledge that your Windows
system is up to date, even
before you connect it to the
Internet. It's designed to
quickly patch a system with
the most current updates and
tweaks available, and requires
no user interaction once you
have selected what to
install.
October
2006 releases available:
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18.10.2006AutoPatcher December 2006
AutoPatcher is a comprehensive
collection of patches, addons
and registry tweaks that give
you peace of mind in the
knowledge that your Windows
system is up to date, even
before you connect it to the
Internet. It's designed to
quickly patch a system with
the most current updates and
tweaks available, and requires
no user interaction once you
have selected what to
install.
December
2006 releases available:
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22.12.2006'AutoPatcher' Service for Windows Ordered Shut Down by Microsoft
A service designed to help Windows users download Microsoft's updates and install them in a faster manner was ordered shut down by Microsoft, in a
cease and desist letter to the service's proprietors...
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30.08.2007Update on Win 7 RTM availability, MSDN and TechNet August 6
Microsoft has just sent word that MSDN and TechNet customers will be able to get hold of Windows 7 RTM on August 6. Windows 7 RTM will initially be
available in English on August 6th and remaining languages by October 1st for both MSDN and TechNet customers. Microsoft has released a time-line for
RTM availability, English will be first followed by other languages:ISV/IHV - ISV (Independent software vendor) and IHV (Independent hardware vendor)
Partners will be able to download Windows 7 RTM from Microsoft Connect or MSDN on August 6th.Partner Program Gold/Certified Members - August 16th. By
October 1st, the remaining languages will become available to download.Action Pack Subscribers - August 23rd.
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22.07.2009Community fights back for AutoPatcher
Microsoft's move this week to close down the AutoPatcher project, a project well known and supported here on Neowin, that allows users to update
their computers without requiring an internet connection, has met with cries of outrage from members of the Neowin community, and IT professionals
from around the world.
Since the initial take-down messages were sent out, and contact was made with both the Neowin administrators, and
the project managers of AutoPatcher, Microsoft have fallen silent on the issue, leaving the community with little explanation about the reasons behind
their action.
As seen by the number of responses the the news articles, and forum topic here on Neowin, and the news item posted on
AutoPatcher's official website, the community is taking this issue very seriously, and are unlikely to let it rest without a full explanation from
Microsoft officials.
In a display of support for AutoPatcher, one fan and Neowin member, M2Ys4U, took it upon himself to make a solitary
protest outside Microsoft's UK HQ building in Reading this afternoon. As he wasn't permitted to enter the campus, he made a stand outside the gates,
displaying his 'Save AutoPatcher' sign for about an hour, before being asked to move on by security.
Whilst Neowin.net does not
officially endorse such a protest, we are pleased that it remained peaceful and nobody had to get hurt.
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31.08.2007Download The Vista RC1 DirectX
10 SDK
With a lot of controversy
surrounding the upcoming RC1
release of Windows Vista (see
Should There Be Vista Beta
3?), Microsoft is already
releasing software which
requires Vista RC1 to
run.
Microsoft
has released the August
DirectX Software Development
Kit (SDK) which includes a
public pre-release of Direct
3D 10. Once again, Microsoft
has released an SDK before
releasing the platform needed
to use parts of it.
According the
Microsoft, "Samples and
applications built with the
Direct3D 10 Technology Preview
in the August 2006 DirectX SDK
require Windows Vista RC1 to
run. The Windows Vista RC1
will be available to MSDN
subscribers." While this is
great news for developers,
many are wondering when they
will actually see Windows
Vista RC1. Many Beta Testers
are still expecting another
'interim' release before RC1
is released to the public.
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07.08.2006MS set to kill off YouTube competitor, Soapbox, on August 31
Microsoft has confirmed today that it plans to close its' video service, MSN Soapbox on August 31. Only last month, the company announced they
were planning to scale back Soapbox and transform it from an also-ran in the user-generated content space into a forum where bloggers and citizen
journalists can post videos. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to Neowin that "on August 31, 2009, MSN will no longer offer MSN Soapbox. Beginning
on July 29, customers will no longer be able to upload videos to Soapbox and we encourage any Soapbox user that wants to keep their videos to download
them off of Soapbox prior to August 31.
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22.07.2009Microsoft releases two Vista hotfix packs via Windows Update
Microsoft quietly released two mega-hotfix packs for Windows Vista via Windows Update on August 28.
Microsoft made the two
hotfixes
the reliability/performance pack (KB 938194) and the compatibility and
stability pack (KB 938979) available to interested parties via the Windows download site on August 7. At that time, the Softies said Microsoft
would push the Vista hotfix packs out to customers via Windows Update at an unspecified later date.
That date ended up being
today. Both fix packs went out over Windows Update as recommended (not important) updates.
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29.08.2007Vista Business sales soar like a leaping dachshund
August numbers are in from Context, the European PC market watcher, and they show that the Vista is anything but Buena for Microsoft. Vista Business,
the, um, business version of Vista, Microsoft's new operating system, slowed during the month, to grab a measly 13 per cent of unit PC sales through
Europe's top IT disties.
Maybe, the customers were all on holiday that month - you know how continental Europeans love to take
August off. And July too...a month in which Vista Business accounted for 17 per cent of unit PC sales. In other words, Vista Business peddling is
pedaling backwards, while sales of XP, Microsoft's ever-so 20th century operating system, appear to be stabilising. Unit sales of Windows XP
Professional PCs dropped four points to 27 per cent in August compared with July. But as Context helpfully notes, they remain double Vista Business
sales, leaving "XP professional appearing still to be the business operating system of choice".
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04.10.2007Update Vista and Office offline
For the first time,
version 4.0 of the heise Security
Offline
Update script archive supports updates for Windows
Vista and Office.
Offline Update provides a simple mechanism for users to install security updates from a CD, DVD or USB stick.
Once the generator
script is launched, all the user needs to do is
select the Microsoft product and the language version of the Microsoft
script they would
like to download. As soon as all the patches are
downloaded onto the disk, the script packs them into burn-ready ISO
images for CDs or
DVDs. The user can then launch an installation script
from the media that quickly installs the updates on the target PC.
Offline Update is supported by a lively
discussion forum.
It is currently the only solution available that provides owners of Windows PCs on a slow internet connection with the latest updates. Until recently,
many users were able to download "update packs" that bundled the Microsoft updates in installation packets from a website operating under the name
of Autopatcher, but the download site was taken down after Microsoft
issued a warning to
the project developers. The zip archive provided by Offline Update, however, does not contain any Microsoft code.
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15.10.2007Microsoft Expression Blend 2 August Preview Available
We are pleased to present our
next preview of Expression
Blend 2. The Expression Blend
2 August Preview allows you to
create Silverlight-based
applications. Additionally,
you can export content from
Microsoft®
Expression® Design in a
format that can be used in
Silverlight-based applications
that you create in Expression
Blend 2 August Preview.
You may
also find
Microsoft
Expression® Media Encoder
Preview to be helpful when
working with video,
Silverlight, and Expression Blend 2
August Preview. Learn more
about Silverlight and its
community today.
Find
out more about what's new in
this preview...
Help us
improve Expression Blend 2 by
reporting any technical
issues. For more insight
into Expression Blend,
please see the
Expression
team blog.
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15.08.2007Microsoft Expression Blend 2 August Preview Now Available
Microsoft Expression Blend 2
is the professional design
tool used to create engaging
Web-connected experiences for
Microsoft Windows.
We are pleased to present
our next preview of Expression
Blend 2. The Expression Blend
2 August Preview allows you to
create Silverlight-based
applications. Additionally,
you can export content from
Microsoft
Expression Design in a
format that can be used in
Silverlight-based applications
that you create in Expression
Blend 2 August Preview.
You may also find
Microsoft
Expression Media Encoder
Preview to be helpful when
working with video,
Silverlight, and Expression Blend 2
August Preview. Learn more
about Silverlight and its
community today.
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28.07.2007DirectX End-User Runtimes (August 2007) Available
This download provides the
DirectX end-user
multi-languaged
redistributable that
developers can include with
their product. The
redistributable license
agreement covers the terms
under which developers may use
the Redistributable. For full
details please review the
DirectX SDK EULA.txt and
DirectX Redist.txt files
located in the license
directory.
This package is localized
into Chinese (Simplified),
Chinese (Traditional), Czech,
Dutch, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Polish, Portuguese (Brazil),
Russian, Swedish, and
English.
Supported Operating
Systems: Windows 2000; Windows
XP; Windows Server 2003;
Windows Vista
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28.07.2007Vista's First Service Pack Coming Soon
Windows Vista's first service
pack is arriving on August 14
through Windows Update,
roughly six months after
Microsoft released Vista. It
is not yet clear whether the
Windows Vista service pack
will include security fixes or
merely update certain Vista
components to improve Vista's
performance and compatibility.
News
outlets have been touting the
rumored release of two big
Windows Vista patches to beta
testers, but the releases have
been confirmed this week by a
leak of those patches to
various Web sites.
The Vista performance and
compatibility packs reportedly
address issues that some Vista
users have been complaining
about. Among other things, the
fixes are designed to improve
Vista's performance when
copying or moving large files
or large directories. Issues
with Vista's memory manager
-- which can cause the system
to lose its default gateway
address -- are also reportedly
addressed in the packs.
The
running theme of the fixes is
to improve the performance and
reliability of Vista, as well
as compatibility issues with
printers, digital cameras, and
other devices.
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06.08.2007MSDN Library August 2006 Edition - Available Free
Microsoft have followed up on
there promise to release
versions of MSDN library for
free by making the August 2006
edition of the MSDN Library
available for download from
Microsoft Downloads.
MSDN Library provides access
to essential programming
information, including
technical white papers,
software development kits and
code samples necessary to
develop web services and
applications. This is an
updated version of the MSDN
Library for Visual Studio
2005.
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11.11.2006Microsoft posts two major Vista fix packs for download
Remember those Windows Vista
reliability and performance
fix packs beta versions of
which temporarily escaped to
the masses last week? On
August 7, Microsoft posted the
final versions of the two
Vista fix packs for
download.
The Vista performance fix
pack, KB 938979, (both 32- and
64-bit versions) is
downloadable
here.
The reliability fix pack, KB
938194, (32- and 64-bit
flavors), can be downloaded
here.
The two fix
packs include a number of the
updates that Microsoft is
expected to deliver in the
first full-fledged Windows
Vista Service Pack (SP) 1
release, a public beta of
which is expected real soon
now. SP1 is expected to
include a number of security,
performance and reliability
fixes that Microsoft has been
delivering since it shipped
Vista, all in one single
package.
Microsoft is promising to
make the two new Vista fix
packs available via Windows
Update at a later date. The
full statement, provided by a
Microsoft spokeswoman:
The two
updates will be available on
Microsofts download center
today, and will be available
through Windows Update at a
later date.
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08.08.2007Exchange Server 2007 SP1 SDK August 2008
The Exchange 2007 SP1 SDK August 2008 Documentation and Samples assists developers who are building applications for Exchange 2007 SP1. This release
of the SDK provides new and updated information and sample code to help you develop collaborative enterprise applications for Exchange 2007 SP1.
The
README file contains installation instructions
for and late-breaking information about the Exchange 2007 SP1 SDK August 2008 Documentation and Samples.
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