Post-SP3 "hotfixes": c'mon Microsoft, this is getting ridiculous
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From: nospam on 11 Sep 2009 02:52 Is Microsoft sticking to their plan that SP3 will be the last service pack for XP? We're up to nearly 100 post-SP3 critical or important patches since May 2008. If they're not willing to qualify another service pack, they should at least come up with an unsupported rollup of these updates.
From: smlunatick on 11 Sep 2009 12:53 On Sep 11, 7:52 am, "nos...(a)nospam.invalid.net" <nos...(a)invalid.net> wrote: > Is Microsoft sticking to their plan that SP3 will be the last service pack > for XP? We're up to nearly 100 post-SP3 critical or important patches > since May 2008. > > If they're not willing to qualify another service pack, they should at least > come up with an unsupported rollup of these updates. With Windows 7 to be released to general sales soon (October) I do not believe MS will. However, they SHOULD as it appears that MS has completely ignored Vista when permitting Windows 7 Business / Ultimate. It seems that you can only downgrade to XP.
From: nospam on 11 Sep 2009 15:38 "smlunatick" <yveslec(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:ca0a8345-b357-434b-8967-ca761822ce6d(a)h13g2000yqk.googlegroups.com... On Sep 11, 7:52 am, "nos...(a)nospam.invalid.net" <nos...(a)invalid.net> wrote: > Is Microsoft sticking to their plan that SP3 will be the last service pack > for XP? We're up to nearly 100 post-SP3 critical or important patches > since May 2008. > > If they're not willing to qualify another service pack, they should at least > come up with an unsupported rollup of these updates. With Windows 7 to be released to general sales soon (October) I do not believe MS will. However, they SHOULD as it appears that MS has completely ignored Vista when permitting Windows 7 Business / Ultimate. It seems that you can only downgrade to XP. ** That's because Vista was never intended as a business/sever OS.
From: smlunatick on 11 Sep 2009 16:29 On Sep 11, 8:38 pm, "nos...(a)nospam.invalid.net" <nos...(a)invalid.net> wrote: > "smlunatick" <yves...(a)gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:ca0a8345-b357-434b-8967-ca761822ce6d(a)h13g2000yqk.googlegroups.com... > > On Sep 11, 7:52 am, "nos...(a)nospam.invalid.net" <nos...(a)invalid.net> > wrote: > > > Is Microsoft sticking to their plan that SP3 will be the last service pack > > for XP? We're up to nearly 100 post-SP3 critical or important patches > > since May 2008. > > > If they're not willing to qualify another service pack, they should at least > > come up with an unsupported rollup of these updates. > > With Windows 7 to be released to general sales soon (October) I do not > believe MS will. > > However, they SHOULD as it appears that MS has completely ignored > Vista when permitting Windows 7 Business / Ultimate. It seems that > you can only downgrade to XP. > > ** > > That's because Vista was never intended as a business/sever OS. Vista Business is "geared" to Business users And XP, Vista and Windows 7 were / are not "server" grade Windows. Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 / 2008 are the "server" rated versions.
From: Shenan Stanley on 11 Sep 2009 18:36
nospam(a)nospam.invalid.net wrote: > Is Microsoft sticking to their plan that SP3 will be the last > service pack for XP? We're up to nearly 100 post-SP3 critical or > important patches since May 2008. > > If they're not willing to qualify another service pack, they should > at least come up with an unsupported rollup of these updates. You mean like the did with Windows 2000? Likely will happen - although 100 since SP3 - I think that number is 30-40 (at least) high. In any case- if you integrate the patches (as many as you can) into the installation media/use a WSUS server/use imaging in combination with those - it's not that big of a deal - never has been. When you consider the over 1000 patches included in Windows XP SP3 - not including SP1a+SP2 inclusion - 60-100... Not that much. ;-) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |