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."

Comments

Frist PS0T

[Anonymous Coward]

neener neener

puts on the black glass

[roror]

where is the link that makes this awful color green ?

FP

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:FYI: The SP2 RC2 problems are spyware related

[sosume]

Better safe than sorry..

I, for one, welcome our new security overlords from Redmond.

They will release it....

[b374]

... when id releases Doom III... oh wait...

First Windows sux and now...

[dark-br]

... slashdot Windows topic color SUX. Where are we going to?

I want may *green slashdot* back!

Malapropism #???????

[dnahelix]

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -George W Bush

Re:Nope

[Anonymous Coward]

Your COMPUTER is BROADCASTING an IP ADDRESS

Re:New captain at the wheel?

[ribond]

Always interesting to see how these things get rated -- the above gets "Insightful"? The bar is (apparently) low.

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:

A software company delayed a software release. This has happened before.

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...

Re:FYI: The SP2 RC2 problems are spyware related

[captainClassLoader]

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."

SP2 is out!

[LukePieStalker]

It's called "Linux"!

Re:NOO!!!! BLASPHEMY! WINDOZE SUX.

[darkmeridian]

Shouldn't this be modded "Informative" rather than "Funny"? Stupid mods.