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More Microsoft updates! Zak 08-08-2006
Posted by Zak on August 8, 2006, 4:31 pm
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There's a whole new slew of new MS windows updates. Jeeze!

I thought all the XP bug-fixes were going to settle down after a year of
two but the activity seems to increase.

The last lot were about 43 MB in my case as I have MS Office.

Has anyone kept a running total of how many MB of download have been
needed to keep patching XP ever since its launch? It must be some big
figure.

Posted by David H. Lipman on August 8, 2006, 6:48 pm
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| There's a whole new slew of new MS windows updates. Jeeze!
|
| I thought all the XP bug-fixes were going to settle down after a year of
| two but the activity seems to increase.
|
| The last lot were about 43 MB in my case as I have MS Office.
|
| Has anyone kept a running total of how many MB of download have been
| needed to keep patching XP ever since its launch? It must be some big
| figure.

I expect WinXP SP3 to be ~.5GB !

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Posted by Melissa on August 8, 2006, 7:21 pm
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> Has anyone kept a running total of how many MB of download have been
> needed to keep patching XP ever since its launch? It must be some big
> figure.

Well, if you wanted to spend some time, you could get a rough estimate
by using the security bulletin search:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx

You can search that based on product (eg XP) and service pack installed
and it should return all security bulletins for that product that are
not covered by the service pack. Then total all the download sizes, add
in the size of the service pack and you have your rough estimate.

Posted by Admins on August 8, 2006, 9:00 pm
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On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:31:47 +0100, Zak wrote:

> There's a whole new slew of new MS windows updates. Jeeze!
>
> I thought all the XP bug-fixes were going to settle down after a year of
> two but the activity seems to increase.
>
> The last lot were about 43 MB in my case as I have MS Office.
>
> Has anyone kept a running total of how many MB of download have been
> needed to keep patching XP ever since its launch? It must be some big
> figure.

The new Mac's can run most of the windows programs now check it out, it
might be the better way to go
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Posted by Sebastian Gottschalk on August 8, 2006, 11:58 pm
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Zak wrote:
> There's a whole new slew of new MS windows updates. Jeeze!
>
> I thought all the XP bug-fixes were going to settle down after a year of
> two but the activity seems to increase.
>
> The last lot were about 43 MB in my case as I have MS Office.
>
> Has anyone kept a running total of how many MB of download have been
> needed to keep patching XP ever since its launch?

Ask the same question for typical Linux distros and you might get a clue
that it's not that bad.

A way bigger question is why it usually recommends a reboot whereas a
restart of the service or driver is normally sufficient.

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