Microsoft XP Service Pack 2
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Microsoft-Watch comes the report that Service Pack 2 will be "like a whole new operating system"
bq. Service Pack 2 (SP2) — due out around mid-2004, according to Microsoft's timetable — will include so many new features that it is practically a new version of Windows. Some Microsoft executives have admitted as much.
bq. SP2 will include a number of features and fixes aimed expressly at improving the security of the now-three-year-old Windows XP. With SP2, Microsoft is turning on its built-in firewall by default; including new browser and e-mail safeguards; enhancing XP's memory protection features, company officials have said. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates showed off many of these features during his RSA security conference keynote on Tuesday.
Running the beta at home and it looks good (I'm a Microsoft Alumnus and get a subscription to TechNet). Just building out the computer its on so nothing to report yet about the applications but it seems nice and stable.
Posted by DaveH at February 24, 2004 4:27 PM