“Look at the pace of the update releases!” Microsoft shills’ latest tune goes something like this: “but Linux is so much more insecure than Windows — just look, every day you see security updates released!”.

Microsoft Corp. has started updating files on computers running Windows XP and Vista, even when users have explicitly disabled the operating systems’ automatic update feature, researchers said today.

A new update to the latest stable version of Debian 4.0 includes security updates and other important problem fixes.