With beta testing underway for Windows Service 2003 Service Pack 2, which also is designed for Windows XP x64 edition, Microsoft is providing a bit more details about the impending upgrade. Window Server program manager Ward Ralston says SP2 will be much less painful than SP1.
Do they plan to sever the OS from their product offerings ? 😉
Amusingly enough, there was a comments post a few months back where someone made mention of “server allergies.” Perhaps they have severe server allergies to sever.
They MUST mean sewer?
I look forward to apply SP2 to my sewers:
“an additional tab which provides a single launching point for common support tools that will ease the discoverability of common diagnostic functionality.”
Sewers are really high-tech these days!
Hang on, 2003 Server “R2” was 2003+SP1 plus a few new features, so if there’s now an SP2, will they release an R3 or make SP2 work for R2, effectively making R2 a bit pointless (as 2003+SP2 would be newer than R2)
Newer does not always mean better of course – Windows 2000 SP4 was released in june 2003, that does not make it per se ‘better’ than Windows XP
Windows 2003 R2 adds some (to some) interesting features like enhanced DFS (mostly DFS), better printer management tools etc – a servicepack is merely a way to fix known issues and sometimes add some new infrastructure to allow newer trends in ICT to work.
R2 is a feature pack, not a service pack, so i’m sure SP2 will be compatible with R2.