Windows XP Service Pak 2

[Boomer]

Please dont think i am stupid for asking this question
but I cant seem to find out on microsofts site where to
download or get the CD's of win xp service pak 2...How do
i get the cd sent to my work....thanks in advance

Boomer

 

[Jon Cosby]

The cd isn't available yet, but you can go to

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx


Jon

 

[Harry Ohrn]

It is not available for ordering yet. check here
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx

 

[Kenny]

The download version is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...BE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en
It hasn't been released on CD yet. Be warned, the download is massive,
272MB!

 

[Boomer]

Thanks so much Kenny when do you think the cd's will be
available ?

 

[Kenny]

I had heard August but no sign of it yet. If you're in the UK PC World,
Dixons, Currys and maybe others will have free copies. Also if it's like
SP1 it will be on PC magazine cover discs.

 

[Chad Harris]

I took this from bink.nu:

Just in from MS: As you know, Microsoft recently released Windows XP
Service Pack 2 (SP2) to manufacturing on Friday, August 6, 2004. You may
also know that Microsoft will deliver Windows XP SP2 through the Automatic
Update delivery mechanism in Windows as a critical update. This process
began on Tuesday, August 10.
Since some of our customers, such as your organization, utilize Automatic
Update for a collection of your PC’s, and since your organization may not
yet be prepared to deploy Windows XP SP2 onto those machines, we recently
made available a mechanism for temporarily blocking the download of Windows
XP SP2 to those machines using Automatic Update. Last week, we received
feedback from our corporate customers that they would like more time to put
this temporary blocking mechanism into place. Based on that feedback, we
have altered the delivery schedule of Windows XP SP2. The machines in your
organization using Automatic Update will not receive Windows XP SP2 until
Wednesday, August 25 – at the earliest – as long as those machines are
running Windows XP Professional Edition.

Here is a summary of the altered delivery schedule for Windows XP SP2:

8/6 Release to manufacturing

8/9 Release to Microsoft Download Center (full network installation
package)
Release to MSDN subscription site (CD ISO image)

8/10 Release to Automatic Update (for machines running pre-release
versions of Windows XP SP2 only)

8/16 Release to Software Update Services

8/18 Release to Automatic Update for users running Windows XP Home
Edition only

8/25 Release to Automatic Update for all Windows XP users including
those running Windows XP Professional Edition
Release to Windows Update for interactive user installations


Chad Harris
___________________________________________________________



I had heard August but no sign of it yet. If you're in the UK PC World,
Dixons, Currys and maybe others will have free copies. Also if it's like
SP1 it will be on PC magazine cover discs.

 

[CS]

I had heard August but no sign of it yet. If you're in the UK PC World,
Dixons, Currys and maybe others will have free copies. Also if it's like
SP1 it will be on PC magazine cover discs.

General release of the AU version has been delayed 9 days. See the
following article:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1636448,00.asp

 

[Gene]

8/25 Release to Automatic Update for all Windows XP users including
those running Windows XP Professional Edition
Release to Windows Update for interactive user installations

Just curious, if there are issues with the RTM release, does that mean
Microsoft would address them by the time it goes to auto-update?

Gene

 

[root]

Just curious, if there are issues with the RTM release, does that mean
Microsoft would address them by the time it goes to auto-update?

Likely NOT. By and large SP2 works great with a few obscure issues.

 

[Chad Harris]

Gene--

They worked very hard during the Beta period to address and test issues.
It's RTM since August 9th. A big part of the reason for the staggered
release is the request from 3rd party vendors to try to make the phone load
to support desks incremental. A lot of Beta testers worked very hard, and
brought a lot of experience with Windows to their work. Microsoft was
responsive to them.

Issues that come up now will be addressed in write-ups on their site, MSKBs
that are coming out frequently, Ezines, and groups. Microsoft has extensive
info on their sites and this will only increase. I'm in the camp with
Root--I think all things considered, it's hitting on all cylinders extremely
well. Microsoft has really made an effort to make SP2 work and succeeded.
They wanted to be taken very seriously as to security, and went after
buttoning down IE.

They provided a somewhat configurable firewall free, and no one could expect
them to compete with enterprise or higher end firewalls in that context.

The issues now, by and large that come up compatibility-wise are going to be
the responsibility of 3rd party software or hardware to a great extent to
correct

Chad Harris
_____________________________________________

8/25 Release to Automatic Update for all Windows XP users including
those running Windows XP Professional Edition
Release to Windows Update for interactive user installations

Just curious, if there are issues with the RTM release, does that mean
Microsoft would address them by the time it goes to auto-update?

Gene

 

[Kenny]

I posted this reply last night but it didn't appear, this seems to happen a
lot with these MS groups.

I had heard August but no sign of it yet. If you're in the UK PC World,
Dixons, Currys and maybe others will have free copies. Also if it's like
SP1 it will be on PC magazine cover discs.

 

[Gene]

Gene--

They worked very hard during the Beta period to address and test issues.
It's RTM since August 9th. A big part of the reason for the staggered
release is the request from 3rd party vendors to try to make the phone load
to support desks incremental. A lot of Beta testers worked very hard, and
brought a lot of experience with Windows to their work. Microsoft was
responsive to them.

Thanks for the responses.

I'm new to XP and find it way better than 3.1/95/98 and 2000. It's
great to know that hard work went into the beta phase. I'm more than
happy to give everyone a chance to do their job. That's why I'm
willing to wait it out.

Gene--

 

[Guest]

Dont worry about download. I did, and it took 19.5 hours. I then asked for a
disk which took only 5 days to get. Even then it took about 2 hours to
install. I have 4 computers, and cant wait for 19.5 hour downloads.

 

[DaViD]

get broadband

Dont worry about download. I did, and it took 19.5 hours. I then asked for
a
disk which took only 5 days to get. Even then it took about 2 hours to
install. I have 4 computers, and cant wait for 19.5 hour downloads.

 

[GG]

Order the cd.

Dont worry about download. I did, and it took 19.5 hours. I then asked for
a
disk which took only 5 days to get. Even then it took about 2 hours to
install. I have 4 computers, and cant wait for 19.5 hour downloads.