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Windows XP SP2 Delayed Until Late 2004

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Without reason? by DrunkenPenguin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Without any reasons?

    There's always a reason! I think Blaster is a reason enough.

  2. Re:Microsoft doesn't need to have reason.... by Renderer+of+Evil · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's a smart move on behalf of Microsoft. They're buying time before the OS becomes further bloated beyond recognition. There is only so much crap you can throw at it before it loses whatever stability users came to expect with the vanilla edition. Service packs break applications, it's not really news. It creates a lot of work for IT personnel to ensure these SPs don't interfere with their 3rd party applications, which in turn produces research data putting Windows in a terribly vulnerable position in terms of TCO compared to Linux.

    Already we are seeing major instability in XP, with constant crashes, random reboots and other issues. Just visit any forum and you'll see.

    The positive side? More and more people are looking for alternatives such as Linux and Macs. Suddenly, the average internet Joe doesn't fear the scary command line of Linux, thanks to ingenius work of few distributions who made it infinately easier for less savvy users to deploy the operating system on their computers. Users are realizing that the myth created by MS advocates that Linux doesn't do anything aside from giving you the bragging rights to call yourself "1337" is no longer valid. It's adequate and even superior for any modern task likely seen by majority of the computer-using population.

    WindowsXP is in war with itself, and there are no winners in this one.

  3. It's a hardware problem by gelfling · · Score: 0, Troll

    They're just waiting for hardrives to become large enough to contain the SP. The next SP will be approximately 500GB installed, 1TB temp space. It will only be possible to attempt to install it once w/o calling MS for special permission. It will require an 8-way Xeonkroplex 2 trillion Gigahertz machine with at least more RAM than has been manufactured in the history of computing, ever.

  4. Re:The press release has a typo in it by matth · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't see the typo?