Microsoft Delays SP2 Auto Update For Enterprises
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Although Monday was to be the day when Microsoft began pushing Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) to enterprises, it changed its mind at the last minute and delayed the automatic updating for more than a week.
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The company&#39;s automatic blocking tool for SP2 will only work until April 2005. After that, Microsoft will push its security update automatically to all XP customers.
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Microsoft has confirmed that it will deliver Windows XP Service Pack 2 to users via Automatic Update starting tomorrow. The company previously delayed including SP2 as an automatic update due to concerns from businesses that their infrastructures were not prepared for the significant operating system changes. Users who cannot download the hefty 100MB service pack will be able to find the update on CD bundled with numerous computer magazines, according to Microsoft. An official SP2 end-user Web site will also launch tomorrow.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Thursday it will delay the release of its Office 2007 business  productivity software, citing a desire to implement  improvements from customer feedback received during testing.
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Although Microsoft has recommended consumers turn on Windows&#39; Automatic Update feature to get Windows XP Service Pack 2, PC makers are reminding Windows XP users to do their homework before installing the security update.
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Users of Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition are scheduled to begin receiving Service Pack 2 via automatic update starting today. But delivery of the Professional Edition has been delayed at least a week while Microsoft and its users grapple ...
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To get next version of Windows out on time, company to delay some planned features, sources say.
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If you want the &#39;security enhancements&#39; of Windows XP SP2 but you&#39;re running an earlier version of Windows, then you&#39;re going to have to upgrade, Microsoft has been confirming to the public prints this week.
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Microsoft has delayed the release of the next version of&#160;Dynamics NAV, one of its ERP applications for mid-size companies, company executives said Tuesday.It&#39;s the second delay this year for the ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, which Microsoft acquired after buying Danish application developer Navision A/S in 2002. A 5.1 released was planned for the end of this year, but Microsoft has instead opted to release a version 6.0 mid-year next year.&quot;We decided we need a little more of what we call &#39;bake&#39; time,&quot; said Kirill Tatarinov, a vice president in Microsoft&#39;s division that deals with business applications, using a software developer term for when a product isn&#39;t done.Tatarinov said the company is working on &quot;architectural&quot; investments on NAV but did not detail those features. NAV 5.0 includes capabilities to manage the work flow of sales documents, the ability to link customer profiles with purchase orders and inventory tracking, among others.Tatarinov quickly added that Microsoft will announce a plan Wednesday to stick to more predictable release cycles. Microsoft has been stung with criticism for slow release cycles, particularly the five years it took to develop Windows Vista.Another senior Microsoft executive said that the company won&#39;t sacrifice quality for speed.&quot;I&#39;m very supportive of the decision,&quot; said Jeff Raikes, who is president of Microsoft&#39;s Business Division. &quot;We recognize that the investments we are making in Dynamics NAV are a very important step forward for the product.&quot;
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MICROSOFT will not broadly release its long-awaited update to the flagship Windows operating system, dubbed &quot;Longhorn,&quot; until 2006.
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Microsoft Corp. is giving users more time to prepare for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) by doubling the time a special registry key will prevent PCs from automatically downloading and installing the mammoth update.
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The days of piece-meal patching and shipped updates are over as Microsoft Singapore urged users to take advantage of the Automatic Updates feature in Windows XP to upgrade to Service Pack 2 (SP2).
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Sep. 08, 2004. Microsoft on Tuesday doubled the time that businesses can block Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) from downloading automatically, giving them until mid-April, 2005, to test the update.
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Microsoft has offered yet another way for businesses to block the Automatic Update of Windows XP to the big-deal SP2 upgrade. The developer posted a copy-and-paste script to
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Microsoft Corp.  on  Thursday failed to quash fears that a new version of its  Windows software system would be further delayed, stirring  concerns that a new technology cycle tied to the upgrade could  be put on hold.
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Some users are getting the massive Office 2007 SP1 update automatically -- even though Microsoft said it would not use Windows' Automatic Updates to push out the  upgrade for months.
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Microsoft is doubling the number of months that corporate customers can block automatic delivery of Windows XP Service Pack 2. The company on Tuesday altered its policy for preventing the automatic download