Microsoft Pulling O2K SR1 From the Market
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I got this in a mail today, I thought it might concern a great deal of you. Rather than try and misquote and offer my opinion, I will simply say: "It figures..." and cut and paste the mail into this column. Take heed this is the truth, hopefully it won't effect too many of you.
I got this in a mail today, I thought it might concern a great deal of you. Rather than try and misquote and offer my opinion, I will simply say: 'It figures...' and cut and paste the mail into this column. Take heed this is the truth, hopefully it won't effect too many of you.
* MICROSOFT TO REISSUE OFFICE 2000--WITH FIX--AS SR-1A
According to internal Microsoft documents, the company will pull Office 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1) from the
market and release a fixed version called Office 2000SR-1a. The company recommends that customers running
Office 2000 on Windows 2000 (Win2K) systems that have been upgraded from Windows NT 4.0 not install SR-1
at all until the SR-1a update is released. Such upgraded systems have had Internet Explorer (IE)-related
problems with searching and hyperlinking. When you add this SR-1 problem to others I've discussed in previous
WinInfo UPDATES, it's pretty clear that the Office team has done it again: SR-1 is not acceptable for production
environments.
The updated service release, SR-1a, will also be included in the new version of Microsoft Office that's due to
ship next month. SR-1a, which will be available on the Web in about 2 weeks, fixes a number of problems that
were introduced with the under-tested SR-1 release, such as the prompt asking for "the SR-1 CD-ROM" on an
Internet-based install of SR-1. With reader feedback, I've identified a new problem that Microsoft has now
corroborated: Certain customers, such as press reviewers and book authors, who received near-final Office 2000
code last year, are unable to upgrade to SR-1. When SR-1 is installed on systems with this prerelease code,
Office applications start up and then shut down almost immediately--behavior Microsoft usually reserves for those
who pirate Office 2000.
In addition to the predictable rerelease of SR-1, Microsoft offers an Office 2000/Win2K Registry Repair Utility to
help customers who have upgraded from NT to Win2K and then applied the SR-1 patch. If you're one of those
unlucky enough to have been burned by this, please visit the Office Update Web site to get the utility.
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/articles/o2ksr1up.htm
Let me know how many of you have gotten burned by this.
