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Web - Microsoft to Release Big Windows UpgradeBy ALLISON LINN AP Business WriterREDMOND, Wash. (AP) -- Almost since the day Microsoft Corp. releasedits Windows XP computer operating system nearly three years ago, ithas been a favorite target of hackers and critics eager to stress itsnumerous security shortcomings.Now, more than two years after promising to do something about it,Microsoft is about to release the biggest update ever for Windows.The free upgrade is designed to make users safer from cyberattacks bysealing entries to viruses, better protecting personal data andfending off spyware.Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said the upgrade, dubbed Service Pack 2,revises less than 5 percent of the millions of lines of code that makeup Windows XP _ but adds more value than any update the company hasever done.Some of the nearly $1 billion that's gone into Service Pack 2 alsowill be used on future versions of Windows. But Gates said it wasabsolutely necessary to give away the security advances now because ofthe barrage of attacks plaguing Windows-based computers.- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=42933801
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