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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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The press release has a typo in it by Surak · 2003-08-19 00:08 · Score: 5, Informative

As I stated to daddypants, who IGNORED ME ahem, Michael, Wininformant has the real story. Due out in Q1-Q2 2004, not Q3-Q4.

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...and WinInformant says otherwise by OfficerNoGun · 2003-08-19 00:11 · Score: 5, Informative

WinInformant says that the statement meant Fiscal year 2004, which ends in June 2004 for Microsoft, and that SP2 is due out mid 2004.