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Posted Wednesday 8th April 2009 22:09 GMT
Henry Wertz

Service pack versus fix pack

Glad Phil cleared it up -- it sounded silly to install a copy of, well, anything, that is supposedly slipstreamed, and have to reboot more than once (at the most.)

Regarding service packs -- IBM had a clearer definition for this. Fix packs strictly collected up individual bug fixes. Service packs may add features. Microsoft doesn't have fix packs though...

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