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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. Direct X 10 by Satanboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Still no directX 10.

    But at least I got some patches!

  2. One question. by Allnighterking · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will it make it out before the proposed "EOL" for XP in June?

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    I'm sorry, I'm to tired to be witty at the moment so this message will have to do.

  3. Re:So much service! by blindd0t · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Though I love gaming, each month seems to bring me closer and closer to blowing away all three of my windows boxes and replacing them with a distro of Ubuntu or something similar. My lack of knowledge is the one thing keeping that at bay for now.

    In case you didn't already know, the next version of Ubuntu comes out Thursday this week (April 24th 2008). Though I would recommend waiting until the initial rush is over and you can actually connect to one of the mirrors (this may take a few days to a week), this new version includes a Windows installer which allows you to install (and uninstall, if you so desire) Ubuntu without having to worry about partitions and other aspects of OS installation you might be uncomfortable with. Here's a link to where it's mentioned on the Ubuntu site. :-)

  4. Re:WGA required? by CSMatt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But will SP3 install WGA?