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Windows XP SP2 Goes Gold
writertype writes "PC Magazine reports that Microsoft has released Windows XP SP2 to PC OEMs after a two-day delay. A package of stories, complete with an exploration of the new update, is here. The best way for users to get the update, according to Microsoft, is to have Windows Update turned on; a CD version will be made available." Reader Critical_ writes "With all the news of SP2 being delayed, it seems like Microsoft may have pulled a rabbit out of its hat by releasing RTM on its WindowsBeta site. Neowin has a screenshot of the download page and MSFN has the release information. The final build is 2180. For those who can't download it for whatever reason, Microsoft is giving away free CDs here. Happy installing."
Microsoft (almost) made it close to an original deadline? Whats next ... Linus will turn out to be secretly controlled by evil corporate overlord masters?
Steal This Sig
Hell reportedly experiencing record low temperatures.
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'
Who's going to be the first to test it on a slightly less than legal CD key? :D
Hmm...Does this mean Michael, Microsoft hater extraordinaire runs Windows in his spare time?
Why would he let me install it first unless he has windows himself to install SP2 later?
I think I've just exposed Michael has a hypocrite and windows user.
Besides there reputation and history, why would you even think that?
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Microsoft customers have come to understand quite well what a SP is. If anything, their use of "rollup fixpacks" and things like that are confusing, albeit they're used mostly in the corporate context.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
It will show up on your machine automatically with the automatic updates feature. Whats the rush? It's not like this is a new Pokémon card.
Hmm, if it really does fix the majority of the security problems in Windows, will this remove most of the motivation towards installing Linux or another OS? This seems like a possiblity.
US businesses that currently accept chip and PIN/signature
I am still running Dos 5.0, because I'm pretty sure that Dos 6.2 has a number of outstanding bugs, and a possible security hole. I figger sometime around 2007 it will be safe to make the jump. Win 3.1 should be safe move around 2011.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
One has a trojan and DDOS zombie built in while the other lacks those features.
You mean like Fedora did?
I'm so excited and I'm just can't hide it; .. holy crap, 266 MB ?!!
I'm about to lose control and I think
Please join me for a minute of silence in a memory of our dialup friends.
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Whats the rush? It's not like this is a new Pokémon card.
I beg to differ. Windows service packs are exactly like new pokemon cards.. their worth is dubious yet people have the strange urge to collect them all!
SP2 I choose you!
I've been waiting, like, forever for that one.
WTF? I gotta buy something again just to get it to work right?
I going to hold out at wait for the service pack for SP2.
(kidding)
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Price for a laptop? $1500.00
Price for Win XP Pro? $299.99
Price for SP2? Free
Resinstalling Windows XP, all your programs, and all your data after SP2 renders the computer unusable? Priceless
-rt
With all due respect, why would somebody trust some random "RonnieJ" user to provide an MD5 checksum of the file?
I'm actually surprised by how stable it has been. I've even been able to play Doom 3 with no crashes.
You know you've been drinking the Microsoft kool-aid when you are surprised that a popular application works on a popular operating system without things breaking.
Microsoft has been slashdotted.
I'm going to DISNEYLAND!!
I'd never trust any "RonnieJ" for a reliable MD5 checksum. A "RonnyJ," on the other hand, is a completely different matter.
Just because MS makes it available doesn't mean they've worked out all the bugs.
You new here?
- sm
This calls for a Firefox extension!
You'll want to use the --deep option to make sure all your dependencies are in order like so:
emerge -uDv sys-kernel/windows-xp-sp2
Oh, wait a sec... I'm not even supposed to be here, am I?
Usually when M$ goes gold it doesn't mean a damn thing. For any M$ patch or software, it has to go...
.. ..
alpha
beta
release candidate 1
release candidate 2
release candidate 3
release candidate 4
IRC warez beta
msdn
gold
release candidate 5
GA
release to manufacturing
blue screen
release candidate 6
So this must be hot. I downloaded a file of 266MB and I have this nice icon standing on my OS X desktop. Now what?
I think RonnyJ has it.... but don't be fooled by RonnieJ!
Wow. That's 96 more errors than I got last time.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
at work for about a month (RC 2, anyway, the beta version). Windows update has not worked since I installed it.
:-)
Obviously, the windows update issue should be fixed in the released version, and it must not be effecting everyone, or I presume they would not release it. But my sp2-rc2 had never done windows update properly (that is to say, it failed to install any available updates consistently, every time).
I uninstalled sp2 from that machine today, and I won't be putting it back till I hear some pretty rave reviews. Okay, maybe not rave reviews, but I at least want to hear that it works.
This is just a guess, but I think the Windows Update thing is probably deliberate blocking, rather than a bug.
The updates released on Windows Update are designed for released systems, so installing them on betas might lead to all sorts of problems. Moreover, a lot of fixes released as updates are probably already in the SP betas (or RCs, whatever). It therefore seems reasonable to block Windows Update for beta/RC builds, or at least offer a different set of updates specifically for those builds (if there are any critical fixes released that aren't in the SP).