Re: Security Updates 101

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I agree.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit

"KM" <konstmor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I second that.
I just saw the link posted by Shayna [MS] here two days ago in a reply to
some post.
No other announcements that I saw.

One centralized constant location for XPe updates available to *everyone*
has always been a really week place of the product.

What's really confusing me is why other embedded products of Microsoft
such as WinCE have their updates publicly available. While for XPe you
have to be an OEM or sort of to get access to those websites with heck of
complicated register procedure.

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Regards,
KM


KM wrote:

It used to be 2 places where you could download the updates for XPe.
From Feb 1 it is going to be just one location supported.

Here is the blog page with the info about the changes:
http://blogs.msdn.com:80/embedded/archive/2007/01/30/location-of-xpe-updates-is-changing-at-the-end-of-january.aspx

WTF, since when is this known?! I had been on the Secure OEM site two
weeks ago, and had seen no announcement of that sort. The Blog entry is
from Jan-30, and the site is closing Jan-31?? Why the freaking rush?

We have to register now on two new sites by EMAIL. Give me a break. What
if I need to download something in the meantime? Why no anncouncement
HERE? Or in the Embedded Devwire Newsletter? All kinds of <beep> is in
that newsletter, why not an announcement on an issue like this??

I hate to lose my countenance, but this is genuine Microsoft. :-(




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