[新聞] XP SP2

bluecave

IBM 說先別急著裝...原文如下

IBM: 'Don't install SP2 yet'

By Martin LaMonica
August 9, 2004, 8:54 AM PT

Microsoft says that the code for its update to the Windows XP operating system is finally ready. But IBM's internal technology department disagrees.
On Friday Microsoft released Service Pack 2 to PC manufacturers after a number of delays. That means it will be available to customers before the end of the month.
But IBM last week told employees to hold off installing SP2 until Big Blue can fully test and customize it. The company's technology department said the delay is "due to known application problems and incompatibility with IBM workstation applications."
Along with various bug fixes, SP2 adds a new "security center" that is intended to provide a beefed-up firewall as well as easy ways to tell whether a PC is updated and protected against viruses. In addition, SP2 includes a pop-up blocker in the Internet Explorer browser and updated support for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless technologies.
In the memo to employees, seen by CNET News.com, IBM's internal technology department stated that Windows XP SP2 will "change the behavior of Internet Explorer and cause some application incompatibilities." The memo also noted that some "high-profile, business-critical applications are also known to conflict with SP2."
IBM's Global Services consulting arm, which works with many companies to design and build information systems, has not yet issued any recommendations to its customers.
One IBM employee in the company's internal technology department characterized the decision as routine. The person said that IBM will need to test and customize the new version of Windows before installing it throughout the company. Big Blue's internal technology department maintains about 380,000 desktop PCs.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has described SP2 as the most extensive free update to Windows ever, and executives have acknowledged that work on the update has delayed other projects, including Longhorn, the next major version of Windows.
The update should be distributed to approximately 100 million PCs through automatic updates during the next two months, Microsoft said. Customers who choose to download manually will be able to do so by the end of August.
While some businesses, such as IBM, are deciding to test the update throroughly before installing it, consumers buying new PCs are likely to get SP2 soon. Microsoft said it is working with computer manufacturers to get them to start using SP2 as soon as possible.
The company had planned internally to release the software earlier last week but pushed it out to fix some unspecified quality issues.
Last week, Microsoft warned that customers using Microsoft Business Solutions CRM Sales for Outlook 1.2 will encounter problems with the software if they install SP2. Microsoft posted a patch to its Web site that it says fixes the problem.

ricksg

補一個連結
看起來SP2會讓很多軟體再改一改...
按我

不能用還真麻煩...

Ruronimomo

IBM 現在內部全面禁止使用 SP2，所有的合作廠商也是

奇怪當初怎麼沒有先協調好 B)

parrot

聽說一些燒錄軟體 e.g Nero 5.x 也有不合的情況, 有的軟體則是需要重新安裝一次

francis_lou

先測試是很正常的吧. 如果你們公司有用SUS/WUS, 也不會一有新PATCH就DEPLOY到全部的電腦丫. 萬一衝到那個軟體不就要重灌?

只是這次MS很重視SP2, IBM又是指標客戶, 才會讓人有"扯後腿"的印像...

Black-AC

基本上,滿多大型的公司內部都已經發佈通告,
未待公司全面測試完成前,
暫時禁用SP2,
畢竟SP2有大幅的更新,怕衝到也是正常的!

zhihmeng

我是覺得看你的用途是什麼…
我之前是用norton的personal firewall來擋一些會自動入侵你固定ip電腦的病毒…
效果是還不錯…不過掛上它之後電腦就變的很慢，不單單是網路的部份，
整體的效能都被拉下來了…
原本還想要買一個ip分享器把我的電腦放在後面的…
但是昨天裝了英文版的sp2後，它的內建防火牆讓我很放心的把norton的給關掉了，
而且速度比起norton的快非常多，現在上網也不會覺得慢了…
給大家做個參考…

Dragoon

Cnet 上有一篇文章有個說法:

建議把 SP2 視為作一個新版本的 OS 而不只是一個 SP 的態度導入可以避免許多軟體衝突的困擾. 據說 MS 曾有意把 SP2 這個更新當做一版新的 OS 發表, 不過評估後還是採用 SP2 發表.