Microsoft hands out XP update CDs in Japan

"The Japanese unit of Microsoft Corp. has begun giving away CDs containing a full set of updates for its Windows XP operating system partly in response to prompting from the Japanese government after a recent series of virus and worm attacks," reports the IDG News Service. "The company began the giveaway at World PC Expo, Japan's biggest personal computer exhibition, which began in Chiba, outside of Tokyo, on Wednesday. Dressed in caps, red t-shirts and camoflage pants, the company's 'security patrol' had handed out 25,000 copies of the CD by the end of Thursday, said Akiko Yamaguchi, a spokeswoman for Microsoft Ltd. in Tokyo."