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Microsoft Quietly Releases Windows 2003 SP2

Posted by kdawson on from the long-list dept.

Several readers noted that Microsoft has quietly released 32-bit Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 for download. (The 64-bit edition is still showing as a release candidate on the site.) The installation of SP2 may potentially regress hotfixes that have been deployed previously; Microsoft has released a script to scan for hotfixes that may potentially regress.

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  1. WPA2 Support by solevita · · Score: 3, Funny

    At long last! Finally we can un-wire all those unsightly server rooms and start providing data in the same style that we consume it. I for one welcome our new servers-in-beds overlords.

  2. Re:It's not funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    STFU Malda

  3. Quietly? by AlHunt · · Score: 3, Funny

    > Microsoft Quietly Releases Windows 2003 SP2

    Quietly releases?

    Posting it here certainly made it a lot noisier.

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  4. ninja Ballmer by game+kid · · Score: 2, Funny

    He shall be remembered forever as the first ninja in history to squirt shurikens and throw chairs at targets.

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    1. Re:ninja Ballmer by Nimey · · Score: 3, Funny

      Squirt shurikens from /where/?

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  5. Re:I guess, we can make an apt comparison with... by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 2, Funny
    What I find interesting is that they improved upon the operating system with only 32 bits of code.

    I guess that means that the entirety of the release is a HALT instruction?

    I'm here all week.

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  6. I came, I saw, I... WTF????? by qzulla · · Score: 5, Funny
    15 hr 7 min on dial up

    Crap! I run my server on dial up. Guess this is going to be a long night.

    Thanks a LOT, /.

    qz

  7. Re:Now, where's XP Service Pack 3?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It takes nearly 50 minutes of cranking every time

    they let you do that at work? in front of each computer?

  8. Re:Where is XP sp3? by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 3, Funny

    When you install a new xp sp2 system there is a lot of updates that you need to.
    You should start with a fresh install of Vista first, there are a lot less patches available right now so it will go quicker. :-)
  9. Re:Where is XP sp3? by el+americano · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm still waiting for SP5 for Windows 2000. I think I'm going to be waiting a long time.

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  10. Re:Old News? by electrosoccertux · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just got off the phone with Digg and they want your middle-school ass back.

  11. Re:This is one of the reasons I prefer Debian. by Ultra64 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Everytime I see this I can't get over how fucking funny that bird looks.

  12. Re:What made this release so "quiet"? by professorfalcon · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's not how I heard it.

    What happened is that with the sun high in the sky and the wind at his back, Balmer, dressed in his pirate outfit, sailed his mighty ship through the walls of the MS datacenter with a CD with this service pack on it. He ordered parallel volleys across the bows of the blade servers from both the starboard and port sides of his mighty vessel. And of course, he made the guards walk the plank. After destroying the lasers and the grate with his hook arm, he uploaded the Windows 2003 service pack onto the server.

  13. Re:What made this release so "quiet"? by StressedEd · · Score: 2, Funny
    ..it's just not worth advertising through most mediums.

    Perhaps that is why so few people were aware of the update, they don't posess psychic powers.

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