Microsoft released the third major collection of Windows 2000 bug fixes, or service pack, to premier customers on Tuesday. But everyone else will have to what until Thursday.
Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 is the first update released since Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates issued a company-wide directive about putting security ahead of adding new features to products. Soon after, Microsoft issued a rollup package of cumulative security fixes.
Service Pack 3 includes all previously released security fixes, "plus security fixes learned from the security push," said Jim Cullinan, Windows lead product manager.
The update also features adds a new middleware control, in accordance with an antitrust settlement Microsoft cut with the Justice Department and nine of 18 states. Final status of the November agreement is pending, awaiting final approval or rejection by a federal judge in Washington.
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