Windows XP SP1 Due in August-September
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During a news conference on steps Microsoft is taking to comply with the antitrust settlement, company officials said Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) will be available in the next two months. "Late in August or September, Windows XP SP1 will be released," said Microsoft senior vice president and general counsel Brad Smith. Smith later clarified that the release could come in the latter part of September. "We will meet the deadline that we have set for ourselves to ship it this summer. There is still some chance that it will slip."
In Windows XP SP1, Microsoft will introduce two feature elements intended by the government to prevent the company from unfairly exploiting its desktop monopoly to encourage use of its middleware products. Included in the settlement are Internet Explorer -- which was at the heart of the antitrust case -- Windows Media Player, Windows Messenger, the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine and Outlook Express.