Best Operating Systems & Updates for Microsoft

An SMTP service installs by default as part of Windows 2000 server products. Exchange 2000, which can only be installed on Windows 2000, uses the native Windows 2000 SMTP service rather than providing its own. In addition, Windows 2000 and Windows XP...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite SP1 installs Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite. Fixes in this Service Pack include stability, performance and security enhancements made in many areas of the product. A comprehensive list of...

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is a full cumulative update that contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and includes cumulative servicing updates to the .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.0...

Microsoft has released a patch that significantly improves the randomness of the TCP initial sequence numbers (ISNs) generated by the TCP/IP stack in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. Improving the randomness of ISNs eliminates a class of potential attacks...

Adding one or more language packs to a Windows Server 2008 R2 image enables one or more languages in the installed Windows Server operating system, allowing corporations to deploy the same Windows Server 2008 R2 image worldwide while still providing...

One of the streaming media formats supported by Windows Media Player is Advanced Streaming Format (ASF). A security vulnerability occurs in Windows Media Player 6.4 because the code that processes ASF files contains an unchecked buffer. By creating a...

Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 3 represents a major evolution in security for Windows SharePoint Services. It further hardens Windows SharePoint Services against potential attacks and other security threats. This service pack also includes fixes...

This update resolves the "Indexing Services Cross Site Scripting" vulnerability in Indexing Services for Windows 2000 and is discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-084. Download now to prevent a malicious user from introducing code on your Web...

Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a security vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server and products based on it. Under certain fairly unusual conditions, the vulnerability could cause a web server to send the source code of .ASP...

This update addresses an issue in Windows 2000 running on Compaq computer systems that use the Winbond Super I/O disk controller to access the floppy disk drive, and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q301077. Download now to prevent...