At last: a coffee and beignet break. Time to sum up a few more of the security sound bytes that CEO Ballmer fired in rapid succession at the sleepy partner-conference audience. Ballmer officially announced Software Update Services 2.0, the next version of its automated patch system for mid-size and larger businesses, and said to expect it in the first half of 2004. (The product recently went to beta testers.) He said Microsoft would extend the lives of SP6a for Windows NT 4.0 and SP2 for Windows 2000 to make service-pack transitions easier on users. And he said Microsoft is stepping up training related to securing the enterprise. It hopes to train 500,000 of its resellers, customers and employees in these areas over the next 12 months.