"Trustworthy Computing" WinXP SP2 TBR 2004q3

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-08-18 04:49am

Well well.

So much for releasing service packs and building trustworthy computing.

Microsoft

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2003-08-18 09:59am

Microsoft in Service Pack bugfix shock!

World ends Tuesday!

Seriously, Microsoft having to patch up bodge-job holes in it's OSes isn't newsworthy, it's as inevitable as the sun rising.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-18 02:00pm

What the hell? Q3 2004?

This had better not be due to a feature inclusion: I thought the IT world made it clear when NT4 SP4 came out that they wanted those separately.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2003-08-18 04:07pm

GAH!! No wonder I want to run 2K...

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-18 04:28pm

Well, bugfixes will continue to be released for WXP, but it's nice to have them all packaged up in the SP.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-08-18 07:55pm

2004?! What the FUCK are they smoking? Please tell me that was just a typo and they got the 4 and 3 reversed.....

The ammount of critical updates alone is a pain in the ass to get all at once. (just before hitting 40MB) Thats not counting Media Player 9 and DX9.0b.... Thats alot to get on dial-up......and all of this is after installing SP1a!

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-18 10:11pm

There is a new report that says that Q3 2004 refers to fiscal year - not calendar year. That would place it in H1 2004, which is more reasonable.