[foxboro] XP Security Patches, whither art thou?

Does anyone else share my concern that the security patch process has
grounded to a halt since the middle of last year?

A rough count shows the following outstanding patches for the Win XP,
Service Pack 2 platform:

Aug 2007, 5 critical patches
Oct 2007, 2 critical, 1 important
Nov 2007, 1 critical
Dec 2007, 6 critical, 3 important

The reversed timeline as shown on the IPS web site:

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9 Jan 2008: MS08-001 and MS08-002 entered Evalutation Testing=20

19 Dec 2007: MS07-064, MS07-065, MS07-67, MS07-068 and MS07-069 Passed
Smoke Testing. =20
NEW IMAGE NOT MADE AVAILABLE=20

12 Dec 2007: MS07-064, MS07-065, MS07-67, MS07-068 and MS07-069 entered
Evalutation Testing=20

20 Nov 2007: MS07-061 Passed Smoke Testing. =20
NEW IMAGE NOT MADE AVAILABLE=20

14 Nov 2007: MS07-061 entered Evalutation Testing=20

15 Oct 2007: MS07-056, MS07-57, MS07-058, kb933360 and kb932590 Passed
Smoke Testing. =20
NEW IMAGE NOT MADE AVAILABLE=20

10 Oct 2007: MS07-056, MS07-57, MS07-058, kb933360 and kb932590 entered
Evalutation Testing=20

14 Sep 2007: There were no patches release by Microsoft for this
platform for the month of Sep 2007=20

16 Aug 2007: MS07-042, MS07-43, MS07-045, MS07-046 and MS07-050 Passed
Smoke Testing. =20
NEW IMAGE NOT MADE AVAILABLE.=20

12-Aug 2007: MS07-042, MS07-43, MS07-045, MS07-046 and MS07-050 entered
Evalutation Testing
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The last time patches were released was in June 2007.

Can anybody from Invensys/Foxboro explain the reasoning behind "NEW
IMAGE NOT MADE AVAILABLE"?

Duc
 
 
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