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Microsoft warns users of coming update to Windows Update

Microsoft has announced it will upgrade Windows' update mechanism later this month, a warning that comes nearly a year after the company issued a similar upgrade without informing users. Last September, reports of Microsoft conducting a "stealth" update of its Windows Update (WU) service angered users and put the company on the defensive.

"Beginning at the end of this month and continuing over the next few months, we'll be rolling out an infrastructure update to the Windows Update agent," said Michelle Haven, a product manager in the Windows Update group, in a posting to the team's blog late last Thursday. Haven went on to say that the update, which would affect both Microsoft's back-end update infrastructure as well as the client-side software necessary to use WU directly or access it through a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server.

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Posted by | Tue, Jul 08, 2008 - 08:33 AM


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