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Upcoming Release Schedule for September 2002
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deb Bowser)
Thu Sep 5 08:41:10 2002
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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 08:30:59 -0400
To: itpartners@MIT.EDU, macpartners@MIT.EDU, winpartners@MIT.EDU,
sw-release-announce@MIT.EDU
From: Deb Bowser <bowser@MIT.EDU>
Cc: infosys@MIT.EDU, itag@MIT.EDU
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Date: Thursday, September 5, 2002
To: Members of the MIT Community: winpartners@mit.edu,
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From: Software Release Team <swrt@mit.edu>
Subj: Upcoming Software Release Schedule for September 2002
Cc: infosys@mit.edu, itag@mit.edu
Good morning!
Below you will find updates on projects in which the Software Release Team
is currently engaged. With the assistance of team members throughout the
MIT community, we are working toward IS support for the following software:
MACINTOSH
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Dreamweaver MX (Mac OS X) - release effort soon to be underway - Fall 2002
Eudora 5.1 (Mac OS X) - installer under development - Fall 2002
Mac OS X (10.2) - 30 day evaluation underway - Fall 2002
Office v.X (Mac OS X) - release effort/testing underway - Fall 2002
TSM 5.1 (Mac OS X) - release effort soon to be underway - Fall 2002
Virex 7.01 (Mac OS X) - testing wrapping up - Fall 2002
WINDOWS
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Dreamweaver MX - release effort soon to be underway - Fall 2002
HostExplorer 7.x - release team forming in September - TBD 2002
TSM 5.1 - release effort soon to be underway - Fall 2002
Windows XP Pro - phase two getting underway - November 2002
WinZephyr - MIT developed - wrapping up - September 2002
NEW ADDITIONS TO SUPPORTED PRODUCTS (MAC)
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Mac OS X (10.1.5) - phase one support (printing, network connectivity and
finder navigation) - July 29, 2002
Mac OS X (10.2) - offering same level of support as 10.1.5 for new machines
shipped with the OS - September 3, 2002
NEW ADDITIONS TO SUPPORTED PRODUCTS (WIN)
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VirusScan 4.5.1 SP1 - customized installer - August 15, 2002
Windows XP Pro - phase one support - August 29, 2002
WINDOWS' WORKSTATION RETIREMENTS @ MIT DURING FY 2003
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Target retirement of Windows ME for December, 2002
Target retirement of Windows NT/98 for June, 2003
To support these retirements, we have purchased a large Windows XP
Professional volume license from Microsoft. The license covers Faculty and
Staff with a separate "grant" of licenses for Students. Special thanks to
Microsoft for the generous "grant" and to all the people who assisted with
the negotiations!
Briefly, several critical reasons for the decision to retire Windows
ME/NT/98 are:
- Microsoft us retiring windows NT & 98 in June, 2003
- Our statistics indicate that the use of ME on campus is minimal and NT
usage is decreasing
- We are focusing our efforts on Windows 2000 and XP.
Microsoft's Product Lifecycle for Windows desktops:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle.asp
To view any of the product release notebooks, please visit our page:
http://web.mit.edu/swrt
Contact Us
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How are we doing? Please take a moment to let us know and provide valuable
feedback to the team:
http://web.mit.edu/swrt/feedback.html
We would appreciate your comments and questions; please send them to the
Software Release Team at: swrt@mit.edu.
We're also looking for volunteers to participate in our release efforts and
in testing. If you're interested, please let us know.
Sincerely,
Deb Bowser
Software Release Team
DISCLAIMER:
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The Software Release Team does not distribute software releases, updates or
patches through e-mail. Please DISREGARD ANY MESSAGES WITH ATTACHMENTS
SENT BY THIS TEAM. Most likely, they will contain viruses and/or
unsolicited and potentially offensive content.
