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Microsoft Patch Day: The Next Generation

It's not really the first patch day of the Windows XP Service Pack 2 era. Last month's, Aug. 10, was a few days after the initial release of the massive security-focused update. But the initial day was anticlimactic, yielding only a single Exchange Server issue, and for an old version at that. But now we're over a month since Microsoft finalized the "gold" SP2 code, and we may be about to see how they will handle patches in the post-SP2 era.

We expect that for some time Microsoft will have to keep Windows XP SP1 and SP2 tracks for security vulnerabilities. In a very important sense, the SP1 track is more similar to the Windows 2000 track than SP2, because Internet Explorer is so different in Windows XP SP2. (more)

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