Re: Why not barrage of security updates for WM 2003 OS
- From: "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <ptobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:25:31 -0700
Fewer server applications running on or available for the WM devices. If
you don't have a Web server running on the device, you don't have to update
it to protect against various threats.
ActiveX controls are not downloaded by the browser on WM devices. So,
there's a huge chunk of security vulnerabilities that WM devices don't have.
Paul T.
"Harry Simpson" <hssimpson@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I need a little help explaining to a client why it's not neccesary to have
>a method to pass security patches to the Windows Mobile 2005 OS. Here's
>what I have so far....
> ***********
> The Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC OS does not have the barrage of security
> updates you see with other operating systems such as Windows 2000 and
> Windows 2003. The actual OS must be obtained from the manufacturer of the
> device rather than an "off the shelf" OS you are familiar with in
> desktop/server systems.
>
> ***********
>
> What other reasons are there for having a zillion security updates from MS
> for the Win32 OS and none for the mobile OS??
>
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> TIA
>
> Harry
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