The Movie Moments app in Windows 8.1 build 9385 has been found to silently update after using Windows Update, meaning automatic installation of Windows Store apps could feature in the update More...

Patch My PC is a portable and reliable tool which can quickly check your PC for outdated software. The supported third-party programs include a large number of widely-used applications. More...

Patch My PC is a portable and reliable tool which can quickly check your PC for outdated software. The supported third-party programs include a large number of widely-used applications. More...

Patch My PC is a portable and reliable tool which can quickly check your PC for outdated software. The supported third-party programs include a large number of widely-used applications. More...

Patch My PC is a portable and reliable tool which can quickly check your PC for outdated software. The supported third-party programs include a large number of widely-used applications. More...

Patch My PC is a portable and reliable tool which can quickly check your PC for outdated software. The supported third-party programs include a large number of widely-used applications. More...

Microsoft is only a few hours away from launching and has also rolled out an updated look to Microsoft.com. The new layout has a product focus and utilizes a lot of whitespace and simple navigation. More...

It looks like Skype updates are now pushing through Windows Update, with KB2727727 detailing a Skype 5.10 update for Windows. This is one of the many products of Microsoft's Skype purchase. More...

Patch My PC is a portable and reliable tool which can quickly check your PC for outdated software. The supported third-party programs include a large number of widely-used applications. More...

Patch My PC is a portable and reliable tool which can quickly check your PC for outdated software. The supported third-party programs include a large number of widely-used applications. More...

Patch My PC is a portable and reliable tool which can quickly check your PC for outdated software. The supported third-party programs include a large number of widely-used applications. More...

Patch My PC is a portable and reliable tool which can quickly check your PC for outdated software. The supported third-party programs include a large number of widely-used applications. More...

Microsoft has released a cumulative security update to Internet Explorer which will bring the browser's version up to 9.0.6. The update, as what it is being called, will bring in security fixes. More...

Patch My PC is a portable and reliable tool which can quickly check your PC for outdated software. The supported third-party programs include a large number of widely-used applications. More...

Patch My PC is a portable and reliable tool which can quickly check your PC for outdated software. The supported third-party programs include a large number of widely-used applications. More...

Microsoft is urging users to make sure to update Windows XP, Vista and 7 with the latest security update right away, as it patches an exploit that could be discovered by hackers soon. More...

Patch My PC is a portable and reliable tool which can quickly check your PC for outdated software. The supported third-party programs include a large number of widely-used applications, including More...

Microsoft has revealed the progression of Windows Update and is outlining its use in Windows 8, partly due to the annoyance of the automatic restarts that Windows Update performs in Windows 7. More...

Microsoft released the monthly security bulletins for its Windows update on Friday, several days ahead of its usual Tuesday release. Microsoft quickly took them down an hour after their release. More...

Admins can rest easy for a bit as it seems there was a bit of a miscommunication by Microsoft's IE team earlier this month. They advised then that IE9 would be pushed out to all... More...

Just four hours ago, Neowin reported that Microsoft had released the download links for Windows 7 SP1 on their website. The time it would take for them to push it to Windows update was unknown but... More...

Microsoft has just issued an advanced security notification for the month of February 2011. Patch Tuesday, as nicknamed by Microsoft, where the company releases the latest security patches for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and other... More...

Yesterday Microsoft released two updates for Internet Explorer 9, including a stability fix for various problems throughout the browser, and another that resolves an issue on 64-bit machines with Windows Live Essentials 2011. Users with automatic... More...

Microsoft announced today that it will be releasing a mega ‘Patch Tuesday', where they will fix security holes and vulnerabilities in their software. The record breaking update will deliver 14 security bulletins, fixing a record-tying 34... More...

Backweb, an Israeli company which creates communications acceleration software based on Push technology for the Web, intranets and extranets has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft claiming that the Microsoft Windows Update feature infringes on Backweb's... More...

Royal Pingdom has posted the results of a short study that looked at the availability of the software update services for three popular operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu.Pingdom's uptime monitoring service performed... More...

An infrastructure update has been planned for Windows Update client. The gradual roll-out of this update will begin in late July. This update will occur automatically to any system configured to either receive updates "automatically"... More...

Windows Home Server users are reporting Remote Access problems after updating their home computers to Windows XP Service Pack 3. Following the update, attempting to access those home computers via Windows Home Server's Remote Access... More...

digg_url = "http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/04/29/windows-xp-sp3-now-available-via-windows-update"; Windows XP SP3 is finally here for those that use Windows Update, and here is a direct link to the stand-alone version of SP3 for x86 XP systems (32 bit).... More...

When you try to install Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update you can get error: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is not available for installation from Windows Update and is not offered by Automatic Updates.... More...

Microsoft will release Windows Vista Service Pack 1 next week to a wider audience, according to information posted on Amazon.com and reports from a Web site that correctly called SP1's ship date last month. ... More...

Ever since Vista was released, there has been discussion of when Microsoft would deliver SP1, and whether or not that delivery would be a significant milestone in the OS's development. Microsoft has downplayed the importance... More...

It was widely reported last week that Microsoft had automatically updated systems that had Automatic Updates set to "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them". Nate Clinton, a Windows... More...

Skype is pointing the finger at Windows Update for a critical system crash that wiped out the VoIP service for two days. Previously they had reported that the outage was to do with its own... More...

Using Windows Update, Microsoft has quietly rolled out an update for beta testers using the next version of Windows Live Messenger. The obvious advantage is having the option of being able to update yet another... More...

Consider the following scenario. You apply the hotfix package that is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 916089. Then, you try to install an update from Windows Update or from Microsoft Update. In this scenario,... More...

Thanks [Annon] for sending me this: Starting December 12th, the Windows Server 2003 SP2 RC build (build 2825) will be made available via Windows Update. This is primarily to test delivery of update build packages... More...

With just two days to go before the expiration of mainstream support for Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system, the software giant has provided an update rollup with more than 50 security patches and system reliability... More...

Thanks eXtermia for the heads up on this news, found at DriverHeaven They are reporting that Microsoft have publically released Windows Update v6, now dubbed Microsoft Update. Users on Windows 2000,... More...

Users are being warned to watch out for a fake Microsoft security update. Circulating as an e-mail the fake message points people at a bogus website that claims to host critical security updates. But anyone... More...

This was originally going to be a heads up for a new Update for Windows XP (KB893357). So being the great reporter that I am I decided to install it first before writing about it.... More...

Microsoft Beta co-ordinator, Roger Holland, has just informed current testers of Windows Update v5 that version 6 of the update service is due to hit beta soon. The Windows Update v5 beta ended... More...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Tuesday detailed his company's plan for computer management software and announced a long-awaited Windows update tool. During a keynote speech at the company's IT Forum conference in... More...

Join Microsoft experts on 9/10/04, from 10:00-11:00 a.m. to discuss the newly released version of Windows Update. Date: September 10, 2004 Time: 10 A.M. Pacific Time / 6 P.M. UK ... More...

Thanks Tech001101. Hype and deployments should never be mixed to achieve a recipe for avoiding disaster. Sophos told eWeek that they, unlike most home users, are not eager to deploy XPSP2 and here's why. ... More...

Dear Windows Update v5 Beta testers: The Windows Update (WU) v5 RTM release is coming. As we approach the end of the WU v5 preview program, the WU v5 Beta team would like... More...

Thanks xStainDx for this heads up posted in Back page News on our forums. Microsoft has now also offered the latest build of Service Pack 2 via Windows Update V5 exclusively to testers. However a... More...

At the beginning of July we questioned what Microsoft were doing with WUS (Windows Update Services). This week those who signed up for the open evaluation (which was promised for late summer) received an email... More...

Microsoft said Monday that the long-awaited update of Windows XP will be sent to manufacturing in August, a month later than expected. Windows XP Service Pack 2, or SP2, will contain a number of... More...

Much rejoice there were when Microsoft's Barry Goffe announced that everyone (including the so-called "thief's") would be able to install Windows XP Service Pack 2. A few days later, A Microsoft spoke person said otherwise... More...