Microsoft Plans to Release a One-Stop Update For Its Application

If you are a user of Microsoft Applications, you would know that it is quite complicated to keep a track of updates to all the applications. There are so many service packs and minor security updates and patches that the company find itself helpless to inform all their customers of all the new bug fixes.

Now, Microsoft is supposedly working on fixing this as they take their security initiative to another level with the upcoming release of Microsoft Update service. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced the arrival of this one-stop update service during the RSA Conference 2005.

During the presentation, he promised that the various update mechanisms and sites for Windows, Office, Exchange, and SQL Server would be combined into a single update center using just one scanner to probe systems to determine which updates were needed.

However, some confusion arose when a senior analyst at Directions on Microsoft, Michael Cherry spoke to some media personals and said: “What should have been a very simple announcement got very confusing. I had the understanding that this work was almost done and was already in beta as part of Windows Update Service. But then Gates made it sound as if it was just going into beta. I tell you, I was left a little confused.”

Let us hope this particular service from the stables of Microsoft does not get delayed and we see a unified central location to get all the Microsoft applications updated with latest security patches and updates.

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