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Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2003 SP1

Posted by Zonk on from the pack-your-services dept.

Masq666 writes "Microsoft has wrapped up development on the first major update to its Windows Server 2003 operating system and released it for download, The company said that Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 is currently available for download via Microsoft's site and will soon start showing up on new servers. Among the primary benefits of the free update is the inclusion of security enhancements similar to those added to Windows XP with last year's Service Pack 2. News.com.com has more details and commentary."

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  1. Re:Netcraft Confirms it ... Terri Schiavo, dead at by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    MOD PARENT UP!!!

    It's true, parent post is NOT a troll. Terri Schiavo is actually (finally) dead.

  2. Typos by holy_calamity · · Score: 0, Troll
    Among the primary benefits [disadvantages] of the free update is the inclusion of security enhancements [crippling additions to break your software] similar to those added to Windows XP with last year's Service Pack 2

    Having carefully RTFA, I found a few typos, corrected above

  3. OS fixed... everything else breaks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    can't wait.

  4. We just got BSOD by Sean+Clifford · · Score: -1, Troll
    It was automagically deployed on one of our Windows 2003 Server Standard servers at work this morning and we're currently on the phone with Microsoft trying to sort out the blue screen of death. Server won't boot in safe mode - it's completely dead.

    I'm downloading Knoppix to do some disaster recovery.

    The $245 an hour Microsoft support guy is still insisting that SP1 was in Beta and blah blah blah.

  5. Re: Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2003 SP1 by drinkypoo · · Score: 1, Troll

    if you're using a wizard to configure security you probably shouldn't be admining a server in the first place.

    I disagree that the primary message is that the user is incompetent. If your server insecure out of the box in such simple ways that they can be fixed using a security wizard, you're using the wrong operating system. This is a server OS, it makes no sense to have it be insecure by default.

    --
    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  6. Fails the "Stuff that Matters" test by wardk · · Score: -1, Troll

    now to decide, is this a troll, off-topic, flamebait or just another grumpy person who feels that the world doesn't revolve around redmond.

    fixpack schmixpack. news? hardly.

  7. wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I like it that you don't have to pay 129 bucks for the upgrade, unlike some other LAME company I won't mention.

  8. Re:Netcraft Confirms it ... Terri Schiavo, dead at by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    She was the sexiest woman to be in a vegatative state and then die of starvation, I wonder how easy it would be to access her corpse, hummmmm