SP2 Delayed again?!

Daniel Pass 8 May, 2004 at 6:35am ET Article published in Tech

Yes, it is happening again. Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, which Microsoft had previously said would be out in June, is going to be delayed. Press reports state that Microsoft has delayed the service pack till July, but I know that internally there’s already talk that it will most likely be August before SP2 will be released, and possibly later!

The first delays occurred because Microsoft decided that SP2 should have a whole set of new security features. This is of course a good thing. The latest delays are caused because SP2 is breaking some software functionality with Microsoft products (would they have delayed it if the problems would have been with other developer’s products?). Apparently ASP.NET & Visual Studio 2003 are among some of the products having problems, but there are also reports of Outlook 2003 & Outlook Express “hang-ups” when opening messages.

Wow. Im so unsurprised.News submitted by Ageek

Comments

8 May 2004 ~ 11:54am Omega65

Dan wrote:

The latest delays are caused because SP2 is breaking some software functionality with Microsoft products (would they have delayed it if the problems would have been with other developer's products?).

Exactly! In any event I don't use any of that crap so Ship SP2!
8 May 2004 ~ 12:02pm Templar What's with this recent fetish in delaying things?
8 May 2004 ~ 12:02pm Gobbles security features or security holes? Personally I dont want them changing anything with the security, its fine if you configure it properly. How about they concentrate on improving things like performance, stability, gay networking that it currently uses.

My opinion, take the gui from xp and just overlay it on 2000. I love 2000 but I like the basic windows gui from xp. Mainly the way xp displays my computer that and the user log in screen. Those items in 2000 would make me happy.

Gobbles
9 May 2004 ~ 6:02pm Spinner Bit late on this one Dan.

http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13012&highlight=sp2
9 May 2004 ~ 6:25pm Leonardo

What's with this recent fetish in delaying things?

Recent? That's the name of the game with IT, both hardware and software. Announcements are more important than actual product in hand, especially with Microsoft. But, they are by no means the only player of the early announce - late distribute game.
9 May 2004 ~ 10:36pm KingFish Is valve software writing the service packs now?