When's SP2 coming out?

[Corvette]

Well Octember is not a real month, All you did was mix October and September like they mixed Mosaic and Godzilla to make Mozilla

[Doggie]

Well Octember is not a real month, All you did was mix October and September like they mixed Mosaic and Godzilla to make Mozilla

yeah its what people call a "joke"

[12Iceman]

Q3 2004

Neo-win.net article - remove the dash in the url (between neo and win) and copy and paste it into your browser address bar.

http://www.neo-win.net/comments.php?id=134...y=main#comments

Microsoft Website - Windows Service Pack Road Map

[Corvette]

I'll get a mod to close the thread because SP2 will be out in late 2004. They want it to be as close as longhorn as possible. (Why I really want to close it because I don't want people to say stuff like "But why don't they do it in 2005?" and the like (you choose)

[Aaron]

This is an open discussion to find answers, can't see why it needs to be closed?

Anyway, rumours are about there will be a mini service pack, which is likely to be called sp1b, or perhaps a security rollup package to cover the 35MB of updates that's available on WindowsUpdate after SP1 is installed.

[Corvette]

Well I think I made a underestimating mistake

[12Iceman]

the MSFN homepage has an update on the microsoft link i posted earlier:

Late last week, Microsoft posted an interesting document outlining its release plans for various Windows version service packs, prompting reports that Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), originally due late this year, was being delayed until late 2004. That's because the page lists "Q3 2004" as the XP SP2 release date. A little fact checking goes a long way, however, and after conferring with various Microsoft representatives, I've confirmed that the Q3 2004 date is, indeed a typo. That's the good news. The bad news is that the service pack is still shipping a lot later than originally expected: It won't be out until the first half of 2004.

"Unfortunately, that Web site is incorrect," a Microsoft representative told me Monday. "Windows XP Service Pack 2 will actually ship by mid-2004, and we announced this date at the annual Financial Analysts Meeting last month." Indeed, Microsoft group vice president Jim Allchin noted that SP2 would ship by mid-2004 at the meeting. "We have Service Pack 2 for Windows XP coming out this fiscal year," he said. "[it will] not [include new] features, but there will be a few things that we're adding to that." Because Microsoft's fiscal year runs from July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2003, "fiscal 2004" refers to that time frame and not calendar year 2004. That schedule, I was told, is still correct.

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