From: Randy 

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> A marketing ploy for Vista?
>
>
> http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=177100
793
>
> Microsoft has pushed back the delivery date of the next major Windows XP
> service pack update to the second half of 2007, as much as a year later than
> earlier reports had indicated.
> According to Microsoft's recently updated service pack road map, Windows XP
> Service Pack 3, or SP3, will release sometime after June 2007. The date,
> which Microsoft says is preliminary, is about a year later than some 2005
> reports cited after CEO Steve Ballmer held forth in Scandinavia. Later,
> however, Microsoft confirmed that XP SP3 would roll out after Microsoft
> Vista debuts, not before.
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/19/73983_04OPenterwin_1.html
>
> Yeah, that's right, Microsoft: Wait until someone makes a big deal out of a
> wireless flap against which you can defend yourself, then try and sneak a
> release schedule snafu by us while we're distracted. This right after the
> world just got done quaking in its boots about the metafile flaw.
>
> If you're making me keep track of testing and retesting new Black Tuesday
> releases for an extra year, you are definitely not doing me any favors --
> especially if you're also attempting to hawk a new OS version this year that
> I'm also supposed to test against. Make managing XP easy and automatic for
> me and I'm much more inclined to look at a Vista upgrade as an iterative
> process. Make me work extra hard for every fully functioning XP desktop and
> I'm obviously going to be less interested in losing all that work to another
> OS migration.
>
>
BTW-when does the Consent Decree end?

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