XP SP2 delayed until July

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu May 27, 2004 6:17 am

THE WINDOWS XP SP2 RC2 is delayed, linked to a fault with NX CPU execution protection. Web site Neowin has confirmed that RC2 isn't likely to be released to beta testers until next week.

2138 is the latest internal compile, but is yet to be slapped with the RC2 tag. This suggests that the 2139/2140 will probably be the RC2 build and is likely to ship to testers in a weeks time at most. At first, Microsoft were pressing for a June release date for the service pack, but bugs, delays and the typical development downsides got to them, and have delayed the release until July.

The Longhorn project has pretty much come to a halt, since the build team are focusing on getting the XP SP2 up and running as quickly as possible.

From The Inq.
Original Neowin Article

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Thu May 27, 2004 8:01 am

Looks like were going to be stuck with XP for a while. Not that i mind all that much its the best Windows i have ever used. but then thtats not saying much as it will likly be the last version of windows i ever use. when longhorn does come out i think im going all linux.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Thu May 27, 2004 9:19 am

I read that this morning...........I got all ready for RC2 and it wasn't posted.............

I did a clean install of windows and everything..........well, maybe next week...........

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Thu May 27, 2004 9:36 am

Windows XP is one of the best OS'es MS have ever made, truly, it has the speed of NT and 2000 aswell as the compatibility of Windows 98.

I think i may change back to XP real soon... Windows 2003 is having a few headaches.... it doesnt like some of my hardware and software....

wuzy · Post by **wuzy** » Fri May 28, 2004 4:49 pm

Same here, downloaded Catalyst 4.5 and ForceWare 4.24 while waiting for RC2 to come out. I even waited till 4AM and still it didn't come out!

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 8:54 am

Still no Windows XP SP2 RC2 yet. They did release Build 2142 late last night. I'm running it now and it's a lot more stable than Build 2120 (had a lot of problems with that 1). I don't know if it's out on the tech site yet or not, I got mine from the Beta Test site............

Yair · Post by **Yair** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:09 am

they added some great things for IE such as no more popups outside of the screen area or with removed tool bars
but they could go farther and add options to disable right click blocking and certain keys, disable changing the color of the scrolling bar and prevent hiding a URL in the status bar when you mouse over a link
the user should be able to decide how he want to surf, it's not the website's decision