Who should read this bulletin: Customers using Microsoft® Windows®, Office for Mac, Internet Explorer for Mac, or Outlook Express for Mac.

Maximum Severity Rating: Critical

The IETF Profile of the X.509 certificate standard defines several optional fields that can be included in a digital certificate. One of these is the Basic Constraints field, which indicates the maximum allowable length of the certificate?s chain and whether the certificate is a Certificate Authority or an end-entity certificate. However, the APIs within CryptoAPI that construct and validate certificate chains (CertGetCertificateChain(), CertVerifyCertificateChainPolicy(), and WinVerifyTrust()) do not check the Basic Constraints field. The same flaw, unrelated to CryptoAPI, is also present in several Microsoft products for Macintosh.

The Corona website and been revamped and now includes download information along with some very nice specifications of the technology including 5.1 streaming surround sound which sounds pretty good!
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Late today, Microsoft will unveil the Beta 1 release of Windows Media Player 9, a significant upgrade over the Media Player for Windows XP product the company is now shipping as part of Windows XP, as well as a host of other Windows Media 9 Series products that run the gamut from server-side content delivery to local media encoding. Windows Media 9 Series is the company's most comprehensive multimedia product launch ever.

Just got word that Digit-Times.com have snagged screenshots for Microsoft next line up of peripherals! that includes 7 mice and keyboards! Here's what their saying.

Today Microsoft presented an unusually vast collection of peripheral devices, including 7 new mice and keyboards: Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse Blue, Optical Mouse Blue, MultiMedia Keyboard, Natural MultiMedia Keyboard, Wireless Optical Desktop, Wireless Optical Desktop Pro and Notebook Optical Mouse.

Gladdy.co.uk reports that this is from an offical BTS (Beta Technology Support) document from Microsoft :

Its a list of headers from a document containing all the known windows xp sp1 issue and how to cure them!

Ok Ladies and Gentleman, you all have waited for this links.
Here a the link for the Windows XP Service Pack I from the Microsoft Servers:
Download Win XP SP1 englisha>
Download WinXP SP1 german

The link goes to the Microsoft Premier Support Site but it is not password protected so than anybody can download it officialy.
We will see how long.

Big thanks goes to Malti over @ Planet-XP and ActiveWin for the links. Update:Look like microsoft has dropped the file. So we have to wait ;-)

This is a useful command-line tool that reports all of the information on debugging setup. (Viddbg.exe is included in the downloadable .exe file.) This can help find problems with the debugging setup and can help Microsoft Product Support Services determine solutions more quickly.

Just got this low down from Winbeta.org

As stated on many sites today, Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing of Windows® XP Service Pack 1 (SP1), a package of updates for Windows XP, the company's most advanced and fastest-selling Windows licenses. Windows XP SP1 brings enhanced security, reliability and compatibility to business and home users. Windows XP Service Pack 1 will be available to the general public Monday, Sept. 9. But if you need it now come vist Winbeta.org

Microsoft continually works to improve its software. As part of this effort, we develop updates and fixes to recognized issues and release them for customers. On a regular basis, we combine many of these fixes into a single package and make the package available for customers to install on their computers. These packages are called Service Packs. read more ...

Just saw this @ Activewin.com

We have now had it confirmed that Beta 1 (Which is what it was called in the e-mail we received) will be released on September 4th 2002.

Looks like Microsoft have released the Windows Media 9 Series website a bit early (you can't download it yet), but the website is packed full of information about the new upcoming media player including screenshots, features lists, information about the premium services etc etc. Check it out.

I found this @ ieXbeta and this is what they said:
Microsoft have just updated their Windows Messenger client to version 4.7, FINAL. The new 4.7.0101 is available ONLY for Windows XP. MSN for other Windows versions is still 4.6.0.82, although perhaps the XP version can be ripped to work on 2K, but we will see... Click on Read More... for a download link

Who should read this bulletin: Customers using Microsoft® Windows® 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium, Windows NT® 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP.

Maximum Severity Rating:Critical August 28, 2002

All versions of Windows ship with an ActiveX control known as the Certificate Enrollment Control, the purpose of which is to allow web-based certificate enrollments. The control is used to submit PKCS #10 compliant certificate requests, and upon receiving the requested certificate, stores it in the user?s local certificate store.

The control contains a flaw that could enable a web page, through an extremely complex process, to invoke the control in a way that would delete certificates on a user?s system. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could corrupt trusted root certificates, EFS encryption certificates, email signing certificates, and any other certificates on the system, thereby preventing the user from using these features.

This update resolves the "Flaw in Digital Certificate Enrollment Component Allows Certificate Deletion" security vulnerability in Windows XP. Download now to stop a Web site or HTML e-mail from deleting digital certificates on your computer and preventing you from using the services they are associated with.

Just saw this @ Activewin.com

Thanks to all those who have e-mailed in to state that Windows XP Service Pack 1 Build 1105.1 and should be released to testers sometime today. The public will have to wait a little longer however - the service pack should be released sometime next week.

The following functions were added to the Windows® API in Windows XP SP1:

CheckNameLegalDOS8Dot3
CheckRemoteDebuggerPresent
GetDllDirectory
GetProcessHandleCount
GetProcessId
GetSystemRegistryQuota
GetSystemTimes
GetThreadIOPendingFlag
SecureZeroMemory
SetDllDirectory

Redmond, Washington, Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. said it plans to distribute an update of the Windows XP operating system within 10 days as part of an effort to comply with the terms of an antitrust agreement with the U.S. Justice Department.

Computer makers and end users will be able to selectively hide and display Microsoft programs, such as the Internet Explorer Web browser and Windows Media Player, Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan said.

Just got word that WinHelpline have posted the bugfixlist for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 314 Fixes listed and Windows XP Service Pack 1 461 Fixes listed.

Just saw this @ Activewin.com

A few of our friends at Microsoft have informed us that the Windows XP Service Pack 1 is due to go gold by Friday, not really much of a surprise now that the beta test is at the release candidate stage and that yet another build was leaked out to the net early this morning (Build 1105). Stay tuned.

Microsoft has released a list of the their Fall lineup for consumers:

For everybody who missed this one. Windows Media Player 9 build 2848 has leaked into the net.