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Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003

Posted by michael on from the security-is-priority-one dept.

mithridate writes "Microsoft has posted the Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate. eWeek has a short review of the service pack. My favorite quote from the article is, 'The company argues that the improvements are important enough that applications should be changed to accommodate them.' I know I still have not installed SP2 because of the problems it causes with SQL Server, I can't wait to see what kind of havoc it causes on the servers..."

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  1. Running Win Server 2k3 as a Workstation by mr.henry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Love Windows 2000 and don't want to bother with XP? You can always run Windows Server 2003 as a workstation with this guide.

  2. Service Pack vs Version by ferreth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is it just me or are others pissed off that M$ has taken the term "Service Pack" and stretched it way beyond it's intended meaning?

    A Service Pack should fix bugs, provide MINOR enhancements, and performance tweaks. Anything more is a version change.

    Hell, I would be perfectly happy to see the term "Service Pack" disapear entirely to be replaced by 0.01 releases and 0.1 for bigger changes, like most of the rest of the world does. At least that terminology has meaning to me.

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  3. Re:Win2k & Server 2k3 by fireman+sam · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Windows 3.1 (extended mode) took over memory management as well as DOS was real mode and Windows (ext) was Protected Mode.

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