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Windows XP Service Pack 3 Not Due Until 2007

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-ok-no-new-viruses-are-scheduled-in-07 dept.

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."

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  1. uhhhhh... by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Informative
    Not SunOS, Solaris, the BSDs, Linux, OS X, OS/2- you get nice little security patches and bugfixes on a continual basis

    How often do you get security patches and bug fixes for OS/2?

  2. Re:What does this mean for Vista? by MojoStan · · Score: 4, Informative
    Microsoft doesn't love releasing service packs for any OS that isn't the latest one.

    They might not "love" it, but they released two service packs for Windows 2000 after Windows XP Professional was released:

    Win2K SP4 was released 20 months after WinXP Pro was released.

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    TO START
    PRESS ANY KEY

    Where's the 'ANY' key? I see Esk, Kitarl, and Pig-Up...

  3. Re:Microsoft's behavior is extremely abusive. by praxis · · Score: 4, Informative

    "We find we need to re-load Windows XP often because of its vulnerabilities and instability."

    I am not sure to whom your "we" refers. I know I am not in that set as the last time I had to reinstall Windows XP because of its vulnerabilities and instability was...well, never. Reboot, why yes I have had to do that countless times when a patch was pushed out. Hopefully that kind of architecture will be out the door with Vista. Until then I can live with reboots due to certain patches. This box has been running the XP SP2 install since, well, I installed SP2. I use it heavily every day to develop code, test, install and reinstall applications, and do my daily software development work. It could be that my company has a competent IT department, but I am sure a lot of it has to do with me not running as Administrator and not installing suspicious software or browsing suspicious websites when I am. My point being that with proper care and feeding an XP system does not need to be reinstalled often.