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."

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LOL

[aderkach]

LOL@BSD SUCKS

Caution is good

[tepp]

This isn't news.

When Service Pack 1 was released there were so many errors that Service Pack 1 A was shortly released to fix the worst of them. And the hotfixes still keep on coming.

I think I'd rather trust our own internal Q&A department over Microsoft's. Remember, they shipped Windows XP with thousands of unfixed bugs, and considered that good!

IBM related (believe it or not)

[Anonymous Coward]

Some light humor reading for you all this 'nite:

"Free Software and the Idiots who Buy It" -- The Enderle Troll

SP2, SP2, SP2

[Khanar]

There are currently 3 Windows XP SP2 stories on the front page, plus another one on Microsoft patches in general.

Is there really so little happening in the world?

color

[minus_273]

here is a link with proper color

Dear Slashdot.

[Anonymous Coward]

Please don't tell me about every tedious little hiccup with Microsoft's service packs. I know these things never run totally smoothly, but spare me the details unless it's something really dramatic.

Thanks.

PS. Don't take my milk, I had none for my biscuits when I went to go to bed last night. I know it was you, all the other news sites don't like milk.

OH NO! Will Slashdot hold off too?

[scruffy]

Does this mean /. will hold off on changing this horrid color scheme until it's determined that nothing bad will happen? Like being able to read titles and links?

Re:Scary headline

[Pharmboy]

Yea, but if its common at IBM to not install patches until they are made to work with Microsoft's updates, you have to start asking:

Is Microsoft intentionally making the patches not play nicely with IBM software? It wouldn't be the first time, would it? No, I don't have a tinfoil hat on, but IF IBM gets cozier with Novell (or buys it) it will be positioned to be Microsoft's competition with SuSE, which is argueably the best distro for home users and the business desktop.

Troll

[Trejkaz]

I don't know. I guess it might be worth testing the theory out, but the truth is most moderators are too lazy to actually read the things they moderate anyway, so any moderation one gets is most likely random regardless of the title.

Re:Funny

[visualight]

wow. you missed the point completely.

I don't see anyone posting comments describing how low the pay is at MicroSoft, or how horribly they treat their employees.

MicroSoft, with deliberate intent, lies to both it's customers and it's partners. It's a company that has broken trust many times.

You think:
Having a BMW matters.
Actually the chicks that would fuck someone because of his car would probably fuck anyone anyway. These days, anyone who wants to be a ladie killer is one.

Microsoft is just a software company.
Nope. Microsoft is Bill Gates's personal empire; it started with a deciet, became huge due to a betrayal, stays huge by breaking the law. I like having a computer that I own, using the internet the way I want to, owning the hardware and software that I use. The company that you work for is willing to break the law to keep people from experiencing that. It's immoral, you either realize that or you're a moron.

People like you, who think their compensation package somehow makes up for what their employer does, are the reason why the world is so fucked up. Every fucking one of the worlds problems, including AIDS, war, world hunger, can be traced back to someone or some people like you.

You suck.