posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 8:43 PM
by
demiliani
Inside XP SP2 creation... and after!
Today Paul Turrot has published a nice interview with Todd Wanke about the story inside the creation of XP SP2, a nice reading recommended to all.
On this interview there is also a view on the future and it's interesting to see that a XP SP3 is in project. In this interview (in my opinion) there's too much optimism about XP SP2. For me this new SP2 is not a total success, but in many cases it had critical effetcs on systems.
A piece of interview say that "SP3 for Windows XP is slated to be a service pack the way we've always done service packs, and not to be a major upgrade. It will focus specifically on QFEs and fixes [to bugs] that are reported by customers. It should not contain new features. The focus right now is on Windows Server 2003 SP1, making sure that the work we've done in XP SP2 is forward-ported into Server."... Ok, good to see it will be a traditional Service Pack, but I hope it could solve also some problems that affects many (too many) systems that works good without SP2 and NOT WORK with SP2.
All users could be more happy... 
Ops, I forgot another request: a decent Firewall is only a dream or could be reality? A Firewall like the one embedded on the SP2 is ridiculous for a great system.