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UKAS – United Kingdom Accreditation Service: the sole national accreditation body recognised by the UK government to assess, against internationally agreed standards, organisations that provide certification, testing, inspection and calibration services. See website at: www.ukas.com.
Untrusted – (or not trusted) a device (usually) that is not, or cannot be assumed to be, securely configured and not subject to malicious action.
Update – ‘a broadly released fix for a specific problem addressing a non-critical, non-security-related bug’ – Microsoft.
Update services – see Automatic updates.
Upgrade – a newer version of an already installed software package; the upgrade process should leave existing data and user preferences intact while replacing ...
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