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08-17-2003, 10:37 AM
I ripped this from Xbetas.com (www.xbetas.com).
XP SP2 Delayed Until Late 2004
Posted by Lt.Dan on 17 Aug 2003 - 16:07 0 comments
In a surprising turn of events, Microsoft has pushed back the release date for the second Windows XP service pack to the third quarter of 2004. SP2 was long expected to debut before the end of 2003, a year after SP1 made the rounds.
The change in plans came to light by way of Microsoft's Product Lifecycle Web site, which details future support timelines for the company's products.
*update*
I just read this at "The Inq" (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11074&foo=Microsoft%20to%20release%20tiny%20XP%20service %20pack?%2008-17).
THE RUMOUR IS that Microsoft has got into such a flap about the Blaster worm that it's readying a small service pack called SP1a for Windows XP, which might emerge within the next two weeks.
Except it can't be called SP1a as there is one of those already for the Java VM, so maybe it will be SP1X or something. "Tiny", as one of our readers points out, is relative in the case of "modern" operating systems from Microsoft.
According to those rumours, Microsoft wishes to downplay the massive MB accumulation of fixes and the like released during the last 10 months or so.
But some end users and channel players would like Microsoft to do something else, and supply them with a trade-in for their original XP install CDs. That would avoid similar problems happening if – unlikely as it seems – people have to re-install Windows XP from scratch or buy new accessories and the like.
Will Microsoft do this? It would be a logistics nightmare, we'd hazard to suggest...
XP SP2 Delayed Until Late 2004
Posted by Lt.Dan on 17 Aug 2003 - 16:07 0 comments
In a surprising turn of events, Microsoft has pushed back the release date for the second Windows XP service pack to the third quarter of 2004. SP2 was long expected to debut before the end of 2003, a year after SP1 made the rounds.
The change in plans came to light by way of Microsoft's Product Lifecycle Web site, which details future support timelines for the company's products.
*update*
I just read this at "The Inq" (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11074&foo=Microsoft%20to%20release%20tiny%20XP%20service %20pack?%2008-17).
THE RUMOUR IS that Microsoft has got into such a flap about the Blaster worm that it's readying a small service pack called SP1a for Windows XP, which might emerge within the next two weeks.
Except it can't be called SP1a as there is one of those already for the Java VM, so maybe it will be SP1X or something. "Tiny", as one of our readers points out, is relative in the case of "modern" operating systems from Microsoft.
According to those rumours, Microsoft wishes to downplay the massive MB accumulation of fixes and the like released during the last 10 months or so.
But some end users and channel players would like Microsoft to do something else, and supply them with a trade-in for their original XP install CDs. That would avoid similar problems happening if – unlikely as it seems – people have to re-install Windows XP from scratch or buy new accessories and the like.
Will Microsoft do this? It would be a logistics nightmare, we'd hazard to suggest...