Microsoft RTMs Windows XP SP1
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Microsoft Corp. last week released to manufacturing (RTM) its long-awaited Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 1. Microsoft says that it will make XP SP1 available to PC manufacturers and to premier customers over the next few days.
Giga's Enderle says that SP1 could prove to be a double-edged sword for Microsoft in terms of Windows XP uptick. On the one hand, he allows, a lot of IT organizations make it a practice to wait until Microsoft releases an operating system's first service pack before they adopt it broadly. "A lot of times, companies hold off deployments, so they can deploy with the first service release. So there is a percentage of folks who are definitely waiting for that," he speculates.