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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. if they built it right to begin with... by EllynGeek · · Score: 0, Troll

    They wouldn't have to release these multi-hundreds-of-megabyte horrors. No other operating system does such a thing- Not SunOS, Solaris, the BSDs, Linux, OS X, OS/2- you get nice little security patches and bugfixes on a continual basis. Oh, and they work right, and don't break things. It's not a big job until you upgrade to the next release. sheesh. And how did this conglomeration of incompetence come to dominate?

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  2. Re:Wrong, it's already out. by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 0, Troll

    Those crazy "Monitors", USB Mice, USB Keyboards, Intel Chips, NVidia graphics cards... never even heard of such things before!