Waiting and watching

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

So XP SP2 has released to manufacturing. I’m going to be keeping a careful eye on reactions, issues, breakage, etc. for the next few days. Hopefully after I’ve had a few days to see what everyone else is experiencing with this, I’ll go get it myself and start testing on our network. Luckily there are only 5 XP machines, including my own, currently on our network, so I can take my time a little bit and make sure it’s all under control before rolling it out to the other 4 machines, and then making sure it gets added to any new machines that come in later this year. (Yeah we’re a bit behind the times on our OS choices, what else is new?)

Here looks like a good place to start, and the SP2 forums probably have a wealth of info!

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