On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Matthew W. Ross <mr...@ephrataschools.org> wrote: >> Wait for the next Service Pack... er, sorry, wrong vendor. > > It's odd: Microsoft is producing fewer and fewer service packs over the years.
No, they're not. If anything, they're producing more. They're just calling them "Cumulative Updates" and "Update Rollups" and "Feature Packs" and other names now. The party line is that one kind of package is for just fixes and the other is more for new functionality, but they have said that in the past about Service Packs, too (and also said the opposite, and changed their minds, multiple times), and the supposedly smaller updates still include major changes (e.g., you need a CU for Exchange '10 to work with Exchange '13, which is kind of a big deal), so as far as I can tell, nothing's changed. It's a standard technique for big companies: "If it doesn't work, give it a new name. If it still doesn't work, the new name wasn't long enough." -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
