Windows XP SP2 RC2 Delayed Again

[BetaDroid™]

News early this week that Microsoft are trying to iron

out a bug with NX CPU execution protection technology

only spelled bad news. We can confirm that RC2 isn't

likely to be released to beta testers until early next

week. 2138 is the latest compile internally but doesn't

hold the golden RC2 tagging yet.

This only points to 2139/2140 being the RC2 build and

going out to testers within a week. Initially Microsoft

were aiming for a June RTM for Windows XP SP2 but delays

with security center bugs and application compatability

problems have delayed the highly anticipated update until

July. Because of this, development of Longhorn is almost

at a standstill whilst the main build team focus on XPSP2

instead of Longhorn. Many developers internally are

itching to get back to Longhorn development naturally.

According to internal sources 2137(xpsp.040520-1754) was

the build that the NX problems have come from.

Source: Microsoft SP2 Beta Newsgroups