Windows XP SP2 Technical Preview

By Ian Bell Updated May 22, 2004

Quote from the article at iamnotageek.com:

“Windows XP SP2 should only be a few months away from public release. The more I use it the more I like it! On top of what I’ve found just by using it I read a lot of Microsoft’s 200 page document and found some additional goodies that will kick in in the future. The only reason why I’m writing this today is because it seems like 100% of the coverage on this has been about the security center. Yes this is an important step for Microsoft, but I want to show you guys some of the extra stuff nobodies talked about yet.

This was not made to be your only stop for checking out the new stuff in SP2. To go on top of the obvious stuff that the other sites have covered I’ll try to give you some extra info. This may have some pieces that are more technical than you want to read. “

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