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Microsoft has Delayed SP2, Again
I_am_Rambi writes "According to news.com.com "Microsoft has again delayed a long-awaited update to Windows XP, citing quality concerns. The company had planned to wrap up development this week on Windows XP Service Pack 2, but a Microsoft representative said late Wednesday that the software giant had decided that more work was needed on the update before if could be released to manufacturing." Yea, if 3 out of 5 machines failed to come back up, it needs some polishing."
... when id releases Doom III... oh wait...
Has it added anything to the conversation? Am I bettered for having read it?
Insightful might be:
-Analyzing the spin of the article (haha microsoft misses a date)... sidenote -- is this news?
-Asking for information clearly absent (no mention of how much of a delay? Is it a few hours? weeks?)
-Attempting to divine the reasons behind the slip (no data there either).
Lets see if we can meet the bar here. To review, the article says:
Here's another take on it -- someone got paid to put this up, and thousands of eyes have now wasted blinks peering at this. Many readers here work for software companies -- we can get this just by reading the mail in our inboxes. Must be a slow tech week...
I can see it now:
N00B: "Mr Computer Tech, please help me! My Linux box is broken! I can't use my Intarweb any more!
Rakesh: "Hello, My name is 'Jim'. What was the last thing you were doing before the machine crashed?"
N00B: "Well, Jim, I ran this brand new installer for this kuel program that I got from warez-n-worms.com, and then the whole machine died!"
Rakesh/Jim: "What was the name of the installer?"
N00B: I dunno,it was rmstarfromsla.sh or something like that."
"The plural of anecdote is not data" -- Bruce Schneier
It's called "Linux"!
Shouldn't this be modded "Informative" rather than "Funny"? Stupid mods.
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