What's next on Microsoft's security agenda?

MS-Watch | at | by Mike

Now that Microsoft has shipped its long-awaited Windows XP Service Pack 2, what's the company planning for an encore?

Next up on the company's security agenda: Porting the pertinent SP2 security fixes to Windows Server 2003 and certain versions of Internet Explorer; introducing new patching technologies, including Windows Update Services and Microsoft Update; and rolling out Microsoft's next-generation "Active Protection" security technologies - starting with behavior-blocking technologies.