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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. MS: Making the impossible possible! by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember when XP SP3 was impossible which was why everyone had to change to Vista?

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  2. Patching is AWESOME! by urbanriot · · Score: 5, Funny

    OMG, I can't wait, only 8 more days until I can patch my system with SP3! So exciting... patches... wooo!!!

  3. Re:So the bad guys will have MONTHS. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    WTF? Why do MSDN and VL customers get this later than Windows Update? What exactly are we paying for? For staying out of troubles.
  4. Re:So the bad guys will have MONTHS. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    WTF? Why do MSDN and VL customers get this later than Windows Update? What exactly are we paying for? Testing. ;)
  5. Re:RTM? by Unnngh! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Something must have been pretty damn efficient to fit an elephant into a telephone booth.

  6. Re:RTM? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    Legend has it that Vista the Elephant was wandering about on the beach, minding its own business, when it spied a piano on a small island just offshore, at his favorite bar, The Funky Trunk. TFT had a land bridge briefly at low tide, but the water formed a moat to keep out the riff-raff most of the time. The durable unit sat outside on the deck, adjacent the call box. (But don't let the delightfully retro rotary dial, the old style mouthpiece, or the earpiece with the frayed, cloth-covered cord within the weathered, almost out-house-ish callbox distract you from the ivories on the piano, or the ivory on the shore, or you'll screw up the pacing of this admittedly predictable short story).
    Something of a piano aficionado , the elephant wandered out to the island to relive an Anderson and Roe moment.
    Suddenly, a shark appeared between the elephant and the island, water barely deep enough for the sleek menace to move!
    Turning in alarm, the elephant started to move back to the shore. Another shark! What to do? Arriving at full panic, the elephant leapt with stunning mechanical efficiency clear over the first predator, landing in the phone booth.
    Now you know the story of how Vista jumped the shark.

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