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"> It has been continuously delayed since that time, and as of 2 days
> ago when I last looked, was listed on the web site as scheduled for
> release in April (?!?!)."
Omega has not only forgotten about SP5 itself, they've even forgotten about
maintaining the appearance that they're really working on it. IMO, a
competitive upgrade offer to TS.COM is a more likely "SP5" upgrade than a
free upgrade to TS2K.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Evans [mailto:evanscje@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 7:40 AM
> To: Omega List; billmcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: SP5
>
>
> .. I had all kinds of problems and finally got it to work this way:
>
> 1) Load original Platinum Edition of TS2000
>
> 2) Load (from a CD only) the SP4C update .
>
> they will mail you the update on a CD for nothing .. I tried to run SP4C
> from a download and it never worked .. now (so far) I have no problems
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <billmcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 5:07 AM
> Subject: Re: SP5
>
>
> > The schedule for SP5 was orginally posted on the Omega web site
> > for March of 2000 after the February release of Win2000.
> >
> > It has been continuously delayed since that time, and as of 2 days
> > ago when I last looked, was listed on the web site as scheduled for
> > release in April (?!?!).
> >
> > I have hoped this does not mean that Omega is moving away from
> > this product and its support. This level of delay is really
> > troublesome. It isn't as if Windows 2000 were a brand new product
> > without a 1 1/2 year history of beta releases and Microsoft support
> > for developers seeking to update their software.
> >
> > Although Win2000 is clearly not intended to be the operating
> > system for the common man, it is a wonderfully robust OS that is
> > particularly stable and quite adept at running in the networked
> > environment, while at the same time it is clearly the best OS out
> > there for a notebook, pardoxically. It is, after all, the most current
> > Microsoft OS. My office environment has already deployed it
> > widely with no problems, and I am worried that I will be stuck
> > without the capacity to run TS200 soon if this Service Pack is not
> > released.
> >
> > The primary issue in SP5, although I am certain there are others, is
> > to allow the installation of TS2000 on a Windows 2000 machine. I
> > have one machine running Win2k that was upgraded from NT4.0
> > and had TS2000 already installed that seems to be running it just
> > fine, but TS2000 clearly will not allow a straght forward clean install.
> >
> > Has anyone determined a way to perform a clean install of TS2000
> > on a Windows 2000 machine?
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
>
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