Microsoft's senior vice president and general counsel,confirmed in a talk that the company is on track to ship SP1 this summer and later noted that the release will ship on or after August 28. XP SP1 includes a UI change that lets end users and PC makers hide access to five key middleware components--Internet Explorer (IE), Outlook Express, Windows Media Player (WMP), Windows Messenger, and Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine (VM). Based on feedback from beta testers, PC makers, and the DOJ, Microsoft will make additional changes to XP SP1 to make the product's middleware-hiding feature "even more clear to users.





Last edited by Fisher at Aug 8 2002, 04:05 AM

"release will ship on or after August 28"???????? What kind of firm date is that?

DONT DO IT - DONT DO IT - DONT DO IT
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Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 contain a new condition, which asks you to allow Windows to go and install future updates.

This is basically a Microsoft back door.

be warned !



read more here:
h**p://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26517.html



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jake :D

Well if you have bought it then it's nice. If you are using an illegal versio you have problems!!! :P

Just buy it and you don't have problems with it!!!

Greetz

Couldn't a person just block any attempts to update with a firewall?

Yes it's possible you can block the site where it automaticly downloads from.

Or just turn off the Automatic Updates from Control Panel???

Or use Antispy XP

Yep you guys are right. We already found the solution :D

Greetz

Oh, yeah! Read the Register article. This is exactly what I've been expecting from Microsoft ever since the Win98 release when they started trying to blur the line between harddrive files and web files. Along with their more recent bright idea to turn software into a subscription service.

And still the Microsoftie boosters keep telling me "Don't worry, can't happen here, nope, corporations can't keep screwing their customers and get away with it."