Is the Microsoft pipeline now officially unblocked?
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Windows XP SP2 is out. So does this mean we can count on ship dates, instead of slip dates, from here on out? No way.
Microsoft's top brass has become fond of saying that Microsoft's got a lot of innovative new products in the pipeline. But what they haven't admitted is that their pipeline' has been in serious need of some Roto-Rooting for more than a year.
In recent months, whenever Microsoft was running late with a product, officials blamed Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and/or tougher internal security criteria in general. So now that SP2 is officially out (it was released to manufacturing August 6), can we expect the slip-date blame-game to become a thing of the past? Hardly.