Microsoft: No Windows XP Premium
There comes no separate version of Windows XP on the market that Premium hot. That says Soak Derk Wagelaar of Microsoft the Netherlands as a result of messages in Business. All Microsoft-co-workers work now already source with the beta of Windows XP SP2, under the motto ” Eat your own dogfood”.
According to Business Soak pale from leaked e-mails of Microsoft that XP Premium furnished becomes by new computers, with as most important extras servicepack 2 and Windows Mediaplayer 10.
Does Wagelaar, responsibly for Windows in the Netherlands, affirm that the servicepacks so fast possible on new pcs available will be, but of a separate XP Premium-version is according to him no talk.
” In August and September we start with an extensive marketing campaign around the dutch-language version of servicepack 2. The cry that near it uses becomes is Windows Reloaded, but that is no longer then a marketing term. Does it go normally round Windows XP SP2.”
Wagelaar cannot affirm or are scraped it features of WinFS from Longhorn. WinFS is the new truce system that in the future Windows-version sit. ” It comes source often for that we more ideas have then we in our next product can process. But Longhorn remains a revolutionary new Windows-version, just as radical as the change of Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 at that time. Is because it so”completely new version, lasts leading the a little longer all changes by.”
Complicated
Do Servicepack 2, in z”present betastadium clear away 200 MB large, grabs also properly deeply in on the Windows system. ” What concerned that is one more complicated update then the first servicepack”, according to Wagelaar. See” and we the quality of the software considerablyer find then the moment of uitgifte, hold we a blow round the poor with the precise lanceerdatum.”
Except of all recent securitypatches SP2 an improved firewall (that now in a standard way on state) and a control center contain for protection of the operating system. Microsoft respect to use the SP2 beta meanwhile stable enough it self in the practice. 50,000 Microsoft-co-workers turn according to Wagelaar already with Windows XP SP2, faithfully at the motto ” Eat your own dogfood” ” We work self with the software that our customers must go use.
Last month gave Microsoft the beta of the second servicepack yet from with the warning that this version only for test goals arranged is.