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IBM Tells Employees To Hold Off WinXP SP2
robpoe writes "As reported by ZDNet, IBM's technology department has warned internal users to not install Windows XP SP2 until IBM can fix some known issues with the way IE6 is updated, and Big Blue can make a customized version of the patch - 'The company's technology department said the delay is 'due to known application problems and incompatibility with IBM workstation applications.''" However, the article also mentions that: "One IBM employee in the company's internal technology department characterized the decision as routine."
Scary headline to read while I'm in the middle of installing it right now!
Never has a first post confused me more than this one. :)
WinXPServicePackNews.com?
We have asked all of our XP users to hold off until we can verify it. So this should be a good practice at any company
Hehe...maybe slashdotters out there have become so overworked that they just moderate you according to your post title. Time to put that theory into practice.
I just installed it and now my I'm getting the BSOD. Dang it! I went to Linux to get rid of the !@#$ BSOD!
Oh, nevermind... my bad. That was just my screensaver and someone unplugged my mouse.
The only thing necessary for Micro$oft to triumph is for a few good programmers to do nothing". North County Computers
What internal applications? Lotus Notes?
Does the heldesk monkey know that your refer to him by such an unflattering term?
Norman Cook's Ode to Sl
"One IBM employee in the company's internal technology department characterized the decision as routine."
One Microsoft employee in the company's unspecified division of vaguery was alleged to have characterized a response which resembled "We OWNZ you biatch!".
No really, they did.
"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
A company testing new software before installing it on every system they have? Why I never! Next thing you know they'll be telling us that we should not run every attachment we get in our email.
I bet they're just sucking up to the Linux crowd. First the public display of affection for open source, then the We-won't-sue-Linux french kiss. Now they drop the big one: "we don't trust MS either." Maybe they finally got a real marketing department. :)
3000 people, you don't run your own SUS server, and you let people install their own software? Wow tell us where you work so we can apply for your job :)
It could be the "updated" IBM version of SP2 is a nice clean Linux install...
*narf!*
Every large company has a hold off on SP2 order so their IT staff can hit reload on Slashdot for a week or so to see if any "SP2 sux0rs!!11" stories get posted. If we go 2 weeks without one, expect it to get rolled out.
Another site to check are some of the gaming forums. If it doesn't trash Doom3 and the Slashbots pretending to work don't report problems, it must be OK.
Yes, he knows. And he doesn't seem to mind; I just checked my disk quota and it looks like he just allotted me a whole lot more space!
Yep... rm -rf * tends to give you a lot more space.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
You should try to stay INSIDE more often. Why go outside to interact with humanity when there are so many things to read on /.
You left out an "L".
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
In related news, IBM tells employees not to look at the slashdot IT section colors, to avoid blindness.