Thursday, August 05, 2004

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Microsoft delays release of Windows XP update

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Microsoft delays release of Windows XP update "A long-awaited update kit for Microsoft's Windows XP software faces further delays and may take until October to get fully worked into the supply of new computers, a spokesman said yesterday.
Microsoft plans to make the XP "service pack 2" available by download or on free update discs by the end of this month. It was originally scheduled to ship by June 30.
It will also provide computer makers with a new version of XP that incorporates the updates, but it may take up to six or eight weeks longer to appear on new PCs, said Greg Sullivan, lead product manager with Microsoft's Windows Client division.
One factor in the delay is testing to see how the kit affects other software. The kit may interfere with some applications, and Microsoft has acknowledged it will cause problems with its own business customer-relationship management product.
More than 210 million copies of Windows XP are in use, and it's now the standard operating system sold on new PCs."

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