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Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011025132837.035c0e38@hesiod> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:39:06 -0400 To: itpartners@mit.edu, winpartners@mit.edu, sw-release-announce@mit.edu From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU> Cc: infosys@mit.edu, itag@mit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Date: Thursday, 25 October 2001 To: MIT Community: itpartners@mit.edu, winpartners@mit.edu, sw-release-announce@mit.edu From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@mit.edu> Subject: Microsoft Releases Retail Version of Windows XP Cc: infosys@mit.edu, itag@mit.edu --------- Good afternoon, Microsoft released the retail version of Windows XP today. MIT does not recommend upgrading to Windows XP or purchasing equipment with Windows XP at this time. As with any major operating system releases, some applications or their installers will not work as expected and bugs in the operating system will be found and need to be patched. One major incompatibility that has been detected during preliminary testing is that Kerberos for Windows 2.1 (KfW) does not work with Windows XP, and consequently Kerberos dependent applications such as Eudora will not work. We have identified the problem and are testing a new version of KfW which does work with Windows XP. At this time we have finished a preliminary minimal test of the IS supported applications on a clean installation of Windows XP. These tests were very basic to ensure that the software would install and perform basic operations as expected. I am happy to say, with the exception of Kerberos, all of the applications performed their basic tasks. More in depth testing will be needed before MIT will support the use of Windows XP on campus. We also need to expand the tests to include additional MIT critical application that are supported by other MIT departments. For a complete list of the results, see http://web.mit.edu/swrt/winxp/matrix.html. We are gearing up a release effort to coordinate the testing and to determine when MIT is ready to support Windows XP. We will be working with the business process owners, PRCs and key stakeholders to provide coordinated MIT support for Windows XP when the time is right. In the meantime, we advise against using Windows XP for production machines. For updates on the release effort see the release notebook at http://web.mit.edu/swrt/winxp/. We will send an update on the effort in early December. If you have questions regarding the release effort or wish to provide feedback regarding Windows XP, send email to winxp-release@mit.edu. At this time, support is not available for Windows XP. Jonathan ______________________________________ Jonathan M. Hunt Windows Platform Coordinator and Co-Team Leader for Software Release Team Information Systems W92-191 x3-0172
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