XP SP3 due next month
Great news for Luddites everywhere
RECALCITRANT users refusing to get with the programme and move to the brave new world of Vista will be heartened to learn that Service Pack Three for the wizened and wrinkly Windows XP hits the newsstands in April.
TechARP reports that SP3 will appear in two waves, with the Simplified Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish versions appearing in the last two weeks of April and all other variants following three weeks later.
There won't be an integrated SP3 release for Windows XP Media Center Edition or Windows XP Tablet Edition, meaning users will have to buy an old version and apply the service pack later.
SP3 is almost certainly the proverbial it for XP - the OS drops off the reseller and retail list at the end of June and boards the train for the gulag on January 31st next year when system builders will no longer be able to get hold of it. µ
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Whooooo (Not!)
I tested SP3 RC2 using VMWare 6 with Windows XP SP2 and I didnt notice any difference couldn't even find the so called network extras thats supposed to be in it.I did notice that even for the RC2 it checked to see if my Product key was legit so anyone out there heres a warning. It don't install anything I don't think just a check but it took as long as SP2 did to install 20mins. On my AMD 939 3800 X2, GEIL 2GB DDR, Maxtor 250gb SATA HDD system.
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Oh Happy Day!market share
XP will still be holding the lions share of the desktop market for at least the next 3 years, therefore this is not as insignificant as you would like to make it seem.Add DX10 and I'll pay
Add in DX10 support and I'll pay $50 for a license. If not, MS gets no money from me. Linux is now very mature and if I can't play games (new good games that is) then there is no need for MS!Yo MS, play nice if you want to get paid :)
last time
I'm with you! MS needs to include the DX10. I'm not going to give Mr. Gates one red cent more. I have been a loyal (but not always happy) customer of his since the old radio shack tandy days. No Vista for me. That leaves me few choices, but none of them Windows.........Not much to it really
Reading the release notes, it doesn't add anything you couldn't have already downloaded yourself except NAP.Not a big deal.
sweet, sweet WinNT 5.2 !
Like many others, I waited for WinXP SP3. But then I read about it, and actually, Win2K3 with SP2 turned out to be a much better choice. With few tweaks, Win2K3, looks and acts exactly like XP.I just installed Win2K3, and it by default none of the crap running. The system is lean and mean. Oh, sweet sweet Win2K3, why did I wait so long ?!?
These are the good old days!
Whuppity SP3! Lord Vole's gaudy passing-out parade ceremony. The XP whisky is finally mature, and safe to run on me bus!Wassail! For support: place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best spaghetti tree in town! More fun than you can shake a spear at. Drink hael! Take this and be thrifty! Spring forward! We've seen the last of good king XP; raise up your glass to good king XXP!
Just two questions
1) What does SP3 break ?2) How much new snooping stuff is included ?
I don't believe it adds anything useful to XP SP2, and since DX10 is not in it, I fail to see why I should give Ballmer a chance to install more spyware and OS restrictions on what is still MY computer.
Actually, even if DX10 was included, I still don't see a reason to risk the stability of my system and the privacy of my data.
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If you want games without DirectX10 or Vista why don't you use a Mac?All the new games are being released for Mac... And they run beautiful =)
XP headed for graveyard?
Hardly... Although not large in number of licenses, there are applications in industrial control and automation that run on Windows XP. Microsoft is going to find it difficult to force the suppliers of these applications to move to Vista.The end users of these applications are almost all of the large industrial corporations and they are NOT going to let M$ dictate to them. Most of these corporations' IT departments have yet to allow Vista on their desktops, much less on mission critical control systems.
This doesn't even include government agencies who DEFINITELY aren't going to let M$ tell them what OS to use.
I predict that for certain markets, XP will continue to be available LONG after 2008.
Its free!!
Lots of comments earlier about MS needing to put in this feature or that feature if they wanna get paid -- it's a free update you dingbats! Stop letting off steam for no reason..long live XP
I work in a small 10,000 person company. Got my new laptop last week. XP and Office 2003. We are NOT going to Vista anytime soon.I think we are typical of mid-size companies.
not again
I still own raft of windows machines running XP and vista too After having numerous issues the need to really multitask programs, I picked up a macpro, running OS X, its iwhat Vista thinks it is. It all just works, all the time, and doesnt crash or blue screen, if the program fails and some do the OS just smiles and asks you to restart it. I sit in the studio with a set of actions running in photoshop processing 50 or 60 90mb tifs into jpegs to in multiple file locations, burning DVDs, listening to music and typing email......at the same time....not once, every day for the last 6 months and not once has it fallen over!
and dont even go there with networking, just plug it in. or come near a base station and your in. Ironically, i can see all my pcs from my mac, they cant see each other!
i know I might sound like a typical win basher but Im not, ive run them for years, only now it all seems to have gone astray. Win 2k was the best, i rue the day i switched away from it to XP.
but honestly we know computers are now white goods, you turn them on you want them to work every time, all the time. linux , unix under OSX, it just works.