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Microsoft Delays Windows XP Service Pack 2

Posted by simoniker on from the gone-til-august dept.

Rinisari writes "DesignTechnica, among some others , explains that Microsoft has once again delayed its release of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, though only until August. Microsoft has declined to comment on the reason for the delay. Windows Update v5, however, is online and operational (and works with Service Pack 1!), although not officially so. I know many smaller education institutions are chomping at the bit with the looming release, as they are worried about compatibility with some of the new features in Service Pack 2."

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  1. Re:Windows Update v5? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It won't work at all with anything other than IE, since it uses ActiveX apps to do all the checking of your machine.
    It's the only thing I now need IE for.

  2. Re:invalid product keys... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Actually, as of the latest SP2 build, all you need is a corporate key with a PID of 640. New key generators can give you perfect PID 640 keys instantly and several people now have SP2 running, including WindowsUpdate v5, on "warezed" copies of XP using these keys.

    Though it should be simple enough for Microsoft to implement a blacklist of non-sold keys, all that would effect is WindowsUpdate. There are ways to disable product activation / authentication on the client side without ever touching a network connection.

    What to do without WindowsUpdate? Why AutoPatcher of course.