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Rumor: Microsoft preparing a new patch/service pack CD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Sep 13 19:32:55 2003
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 19:32:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
BetaNews is reporting that Microsoft will release a new Service Pack
on September 24 including the various security patches. Because Service
Packs are also available as CD distributions (for a shipping charge),
this may help customers without high-speed Internet connections
obtain all the patches (over 30 Megabytes) needed for their system.
Unfortunately, many brand-new PC's include old versions of the Windows
Operating system and are immediately infected when connected to the
Internet before they can download all the patches.
This would be a welcome change from Microsoft's previous public statments
that the Windows Update Service is the only way for retail consumers to
obtain the patches.
http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1063425644
