This holiday season Microsoft has been giving the gift that just keeps on giving, over and over again. Service packs! Today, Microsoft will release yet another: Office 2007 Service Pack 1. Darren Strange, a U.K. Microsoft Office product manager, blogged about Office 2007 SP1 this morning. I haven't yet seen any other official information on the release, and I won't. I'm sitting in the San Diego airport preparing to board a flight.
Based on Strange's post and a Microsoft white paper, the company line is customer priority and the insinuation is that the service pack is being delivered early. Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas! Bah humbug, I say. The new Office service pack, while not unwelcome, isn't necessary. Office 2007 is highly stable, and it's not like loads of enterprises are holding back deployments waiting for the update. The other service packs are piling up, and the question is, what right-minded IT organizations want to open these gifts—and test them—during the holidays? Windows Vista SP1 is available as a release candidate, with no numeral. Windows XP SP3 is RC1, which presumably means it's further along. About two weeks ago, Microsoft released Exchange Server 2007 SP1.
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Based on Strange's post and a Microsoft white paper, the company line is customer priority and the insinuation is that the service pack is being delivered early. Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas! Bah humbug, I say. The new Office service pack, while not unwelcome, isn't necessary. Office 2007 is highly stable, and it's not like loads of enterprises are holding back deployments waiting for the update. The other service packs are piling up, and the question is, what right-minded IT organizations want to open these gifts—and test them—during the holidays? Windows Vista SP1 is available as a release candidate, with no numeral. Windows XP SP3 is RC1, which presumably means it's further along. About two weeks ago, Microsoft released Exchange Server 2007 SP1.
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service packs = complaints
God bless the blog writers who find any excuse to whine about everything Microsoft does.
Looking in my Windows Updates history, I see "Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate 1". So, one would think neither SP for XP or Vista is further along than the other.
Who says they need to be tested during the holidays? Nobody is forcing customers to upgrade immediately, there is plenty of time for sufficient testing after the holidays.
I think that the "company line is customer priority and the insinuation is that the service pack is being delivered early. Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas!" is relevant for home users, who don't conduct their own internal beta test.
Sorry to say, but sometimes some really crap "News items" make it to the Neowin Front Page news.
"the question is, what right-minded IT organizations want to open these gifts—and test them—during the holidays?"
duh, holidays are a great time for testing and deploying service packs because nobody else is around to bother you!
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