Windows XP SP2 Delayed Until Late 2004

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Windows XP SP2 Delayed Until Late 2004

Posted by michael on Tuesday August 19, 2003 @12:05AM from the day-late-and-dollar-short dept.

Aiua writes "BetaNews is reporting that Microsoft has pushed back the release date for the second Windows XP service pack to the third quarter of 2004 without giving any reasons." Update: 08/19 12:52 GMT by M : Another article claims it will be out three months earlier, no later than June 2004.

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Re:Service Pack? by socrates32 · 2003-08-19 00:07 · Score: 4, Funny

What?? You mean there are problems with XP?

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C64 SP 920293420 by cdtoad · 2003-08-19 00:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Due out November 12th 2003

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1. Re:C64 SP 920293420 by Ryosen · 2003-08-19 00:24 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Shouldn't that be "C64 SP 64738"? ;)
  
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Other windows fixes by secondsun · 2003-08-19 00:08 · Score: 3, Funny

Redhat
Debian
SuSe
Apple
Linux-Mandrake
Gentoo
FreeBSD

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Ironic.. by AbbyNormal · 2003-08-19 00:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Isn't that the time that "Clean" up worm is set to expire?

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XP bug free by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-19 00:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Of course, the real reason for the delay is that after SP1, XP is almost completely bug free (except for thost pesky third-party apps that keep crashing...)
And in other news... by iceT · 2003-08-19 00:09 · Score: 4, Funny

The security community breathed a collective sigh of relief that there would be no new influx of security patches to patch the new service pack until late next year.

Then they went back to tracking the CURRENT vulnerabilities.

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Finally!! by AlexeiMachine · 2003-08-19 00:10 · Score: 5, Funny

They finally understand what a buffer overflow is, and this time, they'll *really* *really* fix all of them.
1. Re:Finally!! by hplasm · 2003-08-19 00:20 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  ....XP has its buffers removed!!
  TaDa!!
  
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Shock, horror... by killermal · 2003-08-19 00:11 · Score: 4, Funny

Windows users will have to wait till 2004 for a new set of features that can be exploited.
Re:Possible reason by spotteddog · 2003-08-19 00:14 · Score: 3, Funny

When has that ever stopped Microsoft before?

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MOD PARENT DOWN!!! by yanestra · 2003-08-19 00:17 · Score: 3, Funny

Parent's author has an idea of the real story. That can't be good.
(Isn't it a good /. tradition neither to read the article, nor to have any idea what it is about, while participating in the discussion?)
Hotfixes??? by winstarman · 2003-08-19 00:24 · Score: 3, Funny

Sometimes it really concerns me when my computers have more "MS Hotfixes" installed than actual programs.

Hmm... I guess the more you install the better it runs. That sure sounds odd.

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Re:The press release has a typo in it by CommandNotFound · 2003-08-19 00:35 · Score: 5, Funny

Then why hasn't Microsoft changed the typo on this page

They've been trying, but their machines keep rebooting on their own for some reason...