Windows XP SP2: The Inside Story
The agile development of Windows SP2? Read the article and see.
Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows: Windows XP Service Pack 2: The Inside Story: “I sent out a mail to everyone in the division saying, ‘This is what we’re going to do. We’re going to take a little bit more time to do it. And if you want to submit a security feature, you should do so, and then show up at this room.’ Well, the next day, it was standing room only, and everyone had a security feature that they wanted to check in. It went all the way down from things like the new Bluetooth stack, to the new Windows Media Player, to the new Group Policy stuff, and on, and on, and on, and on.
We started walking through this list and realized that this was now not just an SP1 plus, it was now an SP2 [as it was finally released, a major update]. We took the new DCR [Design Change Request] list and Brian and I approved those individual DCRs, and then we pulled SP2 from the Windows Sustained Engineering (WinSE) team.”