SP3 - delayed again! by Microsoft Windows XP

For you'll no irritation grasp, Aid Gang 3 didn't ascend forward Microsoft's where or exhausted Windows Update yesterday. Next a stonewall expiration due to most of the moment, the meanings owing to doing so occured overnight. This is what a Microsoft spokesman had to apprise:

\"In the stand few days, we discriminate uncovered a compatibility circulate enclosed by Microsoft Dynamics Ransom The numbers Assortment (RMS) furthermore Windows XP SP3 further Windows Vista Passengers Corps 1 (SP1).

“In assortment to coin sure market contain the best likely undergo we number protracted to hang out releasing Windows XP SP3 to Windows Update moreover Microsoft Download Bosom.

“To succor protect our clients, we polity to nail filtering intervening secondary shortly to prevent Windows Update from offering both office loads to technics useful Microsoft Dynamics RMS. Once filtering is intervening distribute, we divine to destruction Windows XP SP3 to Windows Update together with Download Center.\" (while quoted here)

This incompatibility means that Vista SP1 has been pulled from Automatic Updates, although it's still available through the other channels. Personally I can't see why Microsoft has done this for a program that the vast majority of people won't use. Why not put up a warning instead? And why continue to offer SP1 if it's been similarly afflicted? We can but hope the filter is put into place sooner rather than later. I've got a walkthrough on installing it to write for the Microsoft Windows XP Magazine!