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Security updates are released once a month on the website, except in special circumstances; for instance, in the event of a widespread computer virus or worm, Microsoft releases a corresponding update as soon as possible. [1] Gordon Mangione, Microsoft's Security Business & Technology Unit vice president (from 2004-03 to 2005-11 [2]), remarked:
Since Windows 8, the Windows Update is able to offers device firmware updates, for example UEFI. Windows 10 contains major changes to Windows Update Agent operations; it no longer allows the manual, selective installation of updates. All updates, regardless of type (this includes hardware drivers), are downloaded and installed automatically ...
The Considerable Duck — GNOME 2.0.2 Desktop RC1; Thor — Sun S493; Thoroughbred — AMD Athlon XP 130 nm processor; Thunder Mountain — Sun StorEdge L1000; Thunderbird — AMD Athlon processor; Thunderbird — Red Hat Linux 4.8 / 4.8.1 / 4.95; Threshold — first two public build of Windows 10 (1507 and 1511) Tiger — Apple Mac OS X 10.4
Windows 10 Windows 10 November Update Named after a location seen in Halo: Combat Evolved, near which Installation 04 orbits. [61] Redstone — Windows Server 2016 Windows 10 Creators Update Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Windows 10 April 2018 Update Windows Server 2019: Named after a fictional mineral from Minecraft. [62] [63] Santorini ...
HP Universal Print Driver (UPD) is an intelligent print driver that supports a broad range of HP print devices, such as LaserJet and various MFPs. Developed by Hewlett-Packard , HP UPD combines a general purpose driver ( XPSDrv , UniDrv , or PSCRIPT ), print control, and HP proprietary extensions.
Microsoft's Shift JIS variant is known simply as "Code page 932" on Microsoft Windows, however this is ambiguous as IBM's code page 932, while also a Shift JIS variant, lacks the NEC and NEC-selected double-byte vendor extensions which are present in Microsoft's variant (although both include the IBM extensions) and preserves the 1978 ordering of JIS X 0208.
Updates to the Windows Desktop Update were part of IE 4.0 hotfixes and service packs. Later, shell security updates for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 included both the update to the Windows Desktop Update version and the original version. Sometimes the Windows Desktop Update version and the update to the original version were packaged separately.
Current Windows versions and all back to Windows XP and prior Windows NT (3.x, 4.0) are shipped with system libraries that support string encoding of two types: 16-bit "Unicode" (UTF-16 since Windows 2000) and a (sometimes multibyte) encoding called the "code page" (or incorrectly referred to as ANSI code page). 16-bit functions have names suffixed with 'W' (from "wide") such as SetWindowTextW.