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Windows XP SP3 Released To Manufacturing

Posted by kdawson on from the last-in-a-distinguished-line dept.

mike_diack was one of many readers to send word that Windows XP SP3 been released to manufacturing. It will be available to OEMs and enterprise customers on April 29. Here is a summary of features and changes. The company will wait till "early summer" to enable SP3 downloads through Automatic Updates.

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  1. Re:So much service! - Broadcom does work by expatriot · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Getting Broadcom support is not as easy as the one-click that some people imply.

    First you have to know that you need ndiswrapper
    You have to know how to get the wrapper
    You have to know which of the many versions matches your wireless card
    You have to install it (which for me required several sessions with a terminal window)
    You have to figure out how to get your wireless security set up
    You have to figure out why you can ping the router but firefox cannot find the server