Windows XP SP2 distributions pass 200 million
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Microsoft distributed more than 218 million copies of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a senior Microsoft executive told an audience of Microsoft partners on Sunday.
The Windows XP SP2 count serves as one key benchmark of Microsoft's progress on security. SP2, a free upgrade for Windows XP users, enhances security through a much-improved firewall, a security dashboard, additional protections in Internet Explorer and a partial code-base rewrite.
Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Security Business and Technology Unit, provided the number during a keynote on Microsoft's security progress Sunday at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Minneapolis.