GeneralMicrosoft Quietly Readies Windows XP Update

Vista's first service pack got the limelight, but a release candidate of SP3 for XP was also delivered last week.

Recommend this story? Yes No Please Wait... Just days after Microsoft Corp. delivered a release candidate preview for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), it has quietly issued a similar milestone for Windows XP SP3 to about 15,000 testers, the company said.The service pack, the last major update to the six-year-old operating system, is slated for release sometime in the first half of 2008. Microsoft has not been more specific than that six-month stretch, and Tuesday even took the time to remind everyone that the half-year window is not a lock. "We are targeting [the first half of] 2008 for the release of XP SP3 RTM [release to manufacturing], though our timing will always be based on customer feedback as a first priority," a company spokesperson said.As with Vista SP1, Microsoft at some point will offer a Windows XP SP3 beta to anyone who wants it, the spokesperson said. That timetable, however, was just as iffy as the final release's, with... [ Read more on www.pcworld.com ]

GeneralLeopard Mail Called Security Risk

An old Apple Mail flaw, patched in earlier versions of the Mac OS, reappears in Leopard, security researchers say.

GeneralSurrey council saves £300,000 a year on library supply chain costs

Surrey County Council is set to save over £300,000 a year from the cost of running its libraries since deploying the DS OpenGalaxy information management system.