Microsoft execs in recent months have been adamant that Windows XP Service Pack 2 -- which Redmond officials previously said to expect this fall -- is not to be considered an interim version of Windows. But if customers don't' get SP2 until 2004 (and Longhorn client till 2005), one might assume that SP2 for XP is, indeed, the rumored "Shorthorn" interim version of Windows.

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