`Microsoft comes really with interim-version XP
The software manufacturer examines to can knit currently the possibilities round n the introduction of service pack 2 the operating system from. Experts mean that this exploration, under the code name Windows XP Reloaded, can lead till an interim version of Windows.
Microsoft has in it lately always maintained that there no plans for a new or interim version of Windows are. According to Greg Sullivan, product manager of Windows by the software manufacturer, is this `nog always where'.
“We examine currently our options. This is no notification for a second edition of Windows XP. There its countless options.”
Although Sullivan holds on to the assertion that Microsoft no plans has for an interim-version of Windows, maintains Windows &. Neat Magazine on basis of anonymous sources the tegenovergestelde.
According to the edition, the interim version will come to lie well reliable as new software package in the stores as a replacement of the present XP-packages. XP Reloaded would contain next to all positions of service pack also other updates, below which a new version of Windows Media Player.
Licenties
Analysts played end 2002 though that Microsoft out of necessity with an interim version of Windows should come customers of its Software Assurance-licentieprogramma satisfied to hold.
Windows XP came end 2001 on the market. The officile successor, Longhorn, is not expected for 2006. Many businesses have however a SA-contract taken because they thus three year long insured would be by the newest versions.
According to the analysts, many businesses took along also the introduction of Longhorn in their calculation. Initially Longhorn would lie namely in the second half of 2004 in the stores.
According to Giga-analyst, Enderle Ribbed is Microsoft so busily busy been with the improving of the protection of its software, that the introductions of new software delay gone up has. “As it no new desktopversie comes, can there customers its that well pay only nothing receive”, establishes Alvin Park, analyst by Gartner, at that time.
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