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April 29, 2005 | Comments: (0)
Might there be an SP3 before Longhorn?
While researching another post this morning, I landed on security vendor F-Secure's blog, News from the Viruslab. Today's entry says that while speaking at National Security Day Sweden, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dropped some hints about future service packs and what Microsoft is adding into the next version of Internet Explorer.
Here are F-Secure's exact words:
Mr. Ballmer made some interesting remarks: Microsoft might indeed ship SP3 for Windows XP before Longhorn comes out. Also, upcoming version 7 of Internet Explorer should have anti-phishing technology built-in.
The pending Internet Explorer 7 will feature support for Cascading Style Sheets and PNG graphics as well.
Stateside, Microsoft officials said that a public beta version of Windows Server 2003 R2 will be available within the next two weeks. R2 is an interim release of Windows Server 2003 that carries some of the feature packs Microsoft has created since the previous release, and is slated to ship in the fourth quarter of 2005.
While in Europe, Ballmer also paid a visit to the EU's anti-trust chief.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 29, 2005 09:27 AM
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