Microsoft's top brass has become fond of saying that Microsoft's got a lot of innovative new products in the pipeline. But what they haven't admitted is that their pipeline' has been in serious need of some Roto-Rooting for more than a year.
In recent months, whenever Microsoft was running late with a product, officials blamed Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and/or tougher internal security criteria in general. So now that SP2 is officially out (it was released to manufacturing August 6), can we expect the slip-date blame-game to become a thing of the past? Hardly.
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