Microsoft regularly releases major updates to its Windows operating systems. Formerly, those updates were pushed through comprehensive service packs, but more often these days, they're semi-regular ...

Microsoft has quietly posted a second collection of Windows 2000 bug fixes, indicating the official release of an update could come this week. The Redmond, Wash.-based software company in July ...

Dubbed the "Unofficial Windows 98 SE Service Pack 2.0," the update is a collection of fixes posted by Microsoft, as well as other enhancements added by Alper Coskun, a Turkish computer engineering ...

Microsoft yesterday modified its support policy on service packs, and will now take calls from customers running outdated editions of Windows. The move coincided with the company pulling the plug on ...

CNet has a pre-release review of Windows XP Service Pack Two, and while a lot of the details don’t really interest us that much, there are some nuggets that users of Tablet PCs and Windows Media ...

Windows XP users may now download a fourth service pack for the 13-year-old operating system, but it isn’t coming from Microsoft. Instead, this Windows XP “SP4” comes from a single developer, who ...

For many, the official release of a new Microsoft operating system–such as Windows 7–is just the starting of a clock. They will not buy the new OS until Service Pack 1 is released. Why? Microsoft has ...

Nearly a year after the official release of its latest operating system last October, Microsoft has released the first service pack, or major update, for Windows XP. Service Pack 1 bundles all the ...

I have had to swap out my motherboard (RAM and CPU) several times in the past few weeks. This has nothing to do with my old one crashing, my backup board ...