After a nine-day postponement, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday plans to start pushing out Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) to PCs running Windows XP Professional Edition. Taken off guard by the large ...

A special tool that blocks the download of Service Pack 2 on Windows XP PCs expired last week, ending an eight-month reprieve from SP2 for some users who rely on the Automatic Updates feature in ...

After a nine-day postponement, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday plans to start pushing out Windows XP Service Pack 2 to PCs running Windows XP Professional Edition. Taken off guard by the large number of ...

Businesses are preparing to adopt a 'wait-and-see' approach to Microsoft's security update Service Pack 2 for Windows XP because of concerns over its stability and impact on existing systems.

Microsoft on Tuesday officially retired Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), the company's most significant service pack, several security experts said. "Windows XP SP2 was a game changer," said Wolfgang ...

We looked at the latest Service Pack for Windows XP to determine how it made Microsoft’s operating system more secure. XP SP2 includes a new firewall, application execution protection features, a new ...

The survey of 136,000 PCs at 251 companies in North America found that Windows XP SP2 had been deployed on only about 9% of those computers. Modest uptake of SP2 might be expected in the broad context ...