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Windows XP Service Pack 3 Not Due Until 2007
vitaly.friedman writes "Microsoft has published the due date for Windows XP SP3 (Service Pack 3) on its Windows Lifecycle Web site. The preliminary due date (the latter half of 2007) for the next collection of fixes and patches for Microsoft's desktop operating system is as more than a year later than many company watchers were expecting."
I thought Windows Vista was due this year?
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"2007" is a funny term for "whenever we get around to it"....
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
I think by then half of their team will be working at google!
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This story reminds me of a co-worker I used to have, who used to spout off completely worthless information. One day he decided to inform everyone that the history of the letter W was not in the dictionary, much to his dismay. Nobody was ever quite sure why he cared, let alone why he felt it necessary to verbalize his observations. I suspect he submitted this story as well.
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So their release "date" is 2H 2007? Since when is a 6-month window considered a "date"?
A precedent like that really makes you wonder about the release "dates" they still can't commit to.
no no -- they used a mat. with conclusions printed on it. and then they jumped onto the mat...
Cry me a fucking river. Do you feel that you are entitled to annual service packs? There are lots of hotfixes available so you can roll your own or switch to a real operating system.
Vista is supposed to be out in Q3 2006.
Given the number of fixes released annually I assume MS have to wait till 2007 for gigabit boradband speeds to make it a viable download.... or send a SAE for the 7 DVD SP3 set.
...after the press release from the Duke Nukem: Forever team, where they announced they would be going gold when XP SP3 was released.
This just in: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 is now renamed Microsoft Windows Vista, and will ship sometime in early 2009. Possible new features include an updated icon, a completely new marketing campaign, one driver for an HP scanner written in a drunken coding blitz at 3am, and a new desktop wallpaper prominently featuring the Microsoft Logo.
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Service Pack to fix windows is already out. It's actually up to version 4. It's called OS X 10.4.4
The new desktop theme was nice, but the service pack broke all my games.
It will take 18 months to download...
Well, it *is* hard to improve on perfection!
/sarcasm
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Oh how badly we need a Linux port of WoW. I honestly don't have Windows for any other reason anymore.
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I assume that's like a worm/virus/rootkit etc?
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" NT3.51 had 5 service packs. NT4 had 6.5. w2k had 4. XP might only have 2.
... 6.5 ... 4 ... ~2 ... ?
Next one after that? Won't have any service packs at all!"
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How do you get 0 as the next number in the sequence?
No matter how hard I try, I keep getting sqrt(pi).
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I thought "vista" stood for everything windows was
famous for: Virus Infections, Spyware, Trojans and
Ad-ware.
Shit, by 2007 I'll be stealing Vista instead of XP anyways.
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It has an interface like a truck?
Or did you mean "TINKER TOY INTERFACE"?
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