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Last-Minute Glitch Holds Up Windows XP SP3

Posted by kdawson on from the it's-always-something dept.

An anonymous reader sends word that Microsoft Windows XP SP3, which had been scheduled to hit the Web today, was pulled back at the last minute. SP3 apparently broke a Microsoft application, Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System. Their solution is to set up a filter to make sure that no system running the affected software will get automatically updated; once the filter is in place, SP3 will be released to the Web. A fix for the incompatibility will follow.

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  1. What else do you expect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Given Macro$lut's practice of innovation through acquisition they are unlikley to know all of their products, szo of course things will break. That is a given when you don't know all the foibles of a product that you did not develop but assimilated.

    And anyway, M$ have a history of foisting broken, buggy products on the public. Why should thus be any different.