Service Pack 1 for Windows XP, released in May, combined such patches with a handful of tweaks required by the settlement of the government's anti-trust case against the Redmond, Washington-based software giant.
Mike Nash, corporate VP of the security business and technology unit at Microsoft, said that the delays were in part due to the effort the development team was putting into the final features into Windows XP Service Pack 2.
The list can be found under the heading 'Some programs that seem to stop working when you install Windows XP Service Pack 2' on Microsoft's website. Some games that run on XP also come to grief following the installation of the service pack...
Microsoft has decided to make its final update to Windows 2000 largely a collection of previously released fixes rather than an all-new service pack. The update collection will include fewer fixes than a service pack, with most of those having...
Microsoft said it was "too early to provide any firm date range" for SP1 but said: "In general, we expect the first service pack for Windows Vista to be released in a time frame similar to that of service packs for previous versions of Windows.
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first Vista service pack may serve dual purposes for Microsoft: fixing the operating system's rough edges while simultaneously indicating that it's ready for mass adoption. Also, the company urged businesses not to wait for a service pack to...
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