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IBM Tells Employees To Hold Off WinXP SP2

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hold-yer-horses dept.

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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  1. color by minus_273 · · Score: 1, Troll

    here is a link with proper color

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  2. Re:Scary headline by Pharmboy · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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