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...Last night, Microsoft unveiled Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows XP, an integrated set of the critical security fixes and other software updates that the company has released since XP Service Pack 1 (SP1). Microsoft also released the first set of security fixes--to be released each month--for various Windows versions.
The rollup is a result of Microsoft's recent decision to switch to more predictable product updates. Update Rollup 1 for XP is a response, of sorts, to customer complaints that arose after Microsoft quietly noted (on a Web page) XP SP2's delay from late 2003 to early 2004; customers had asked the company for an easier to way to install the cavalcade of security patches that Microsoft had released since last year's XP SP1 release.
"Microsoft has released Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Windows XP," the company noted in a security posting this week. "An update rollup is a cumulative set of hotfixes, security patches, critical updates, and updates that are packaged together for easy deployment." The package includes 22 previously released fixes; installing one update rollup has the same result as installing the individual updates.
Update Rollup 1 for XP is available from Windows Update and by direct download from the Microsoft Web site. Two download packages are available: a full installer that weighs in at 9.2MB and an express installation version that dribbles in only the fixes that your particular system needs, saving bandwidth and time. More information and the free downloads are available from the Microsoft Web site (see the first URL above).
Microsoft also released its first planned set of security fixes yesterday. The set consists of five critical security fixes--four for Windows and one for Microsoft Exchange Server--and two noncritical fixes.
