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Windows XP SP3 Released To Manufacturing
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.
I will slipstream it and add the driver pack to my disks.
http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/
Remember when XP SP3 was impossible which was why everyone had to change to Vista?
Engineering is the art of compromise.
OMG, I can't wait, only 8 more days until I can patch my system with SP3! So exciting... patches... wooo!!!
Isn't it kinda late to be releasing to manufactures? How much more will they be able to use it?
While I love the fact that my OS is being helped along and that they are keeping it up to date, I am still a little annoyed that the "follow up" OS is really still about as useful as a bucket full of random sized bolts.
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.
When will Microsoft simply get the fact that a flashy desktop DOES NOT COMPENSATE FOR A SHITTY OS.
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So if you paid full retail thinking you could drag XP with you when you upgrade your system...
You're stuck. Kaching. Thanks for playing.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Windows XP SP3 rev. 5503
mmm...muffins
Is the fact that this was posted on April 1st a bad thing?
It will be available to OEMs and enterprise customers on April 29. ... The company will wait till "early summer" to enable SP3 downloads through Automatic Updates.
So the bad guys, who can automatically generate exploits from updates in minutes will have MONTHS to generate and deploy their malware.
Good job, Microsoft!
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Overview of Windows XP Service Pack 3.pdf - 428 KB Download
Overview of Windows XP Service Pack 3.xps - 634 KB Download
AT&ROFLMAO
Still no directX 10.
But at least I got some patches!
... does "early summer" mean we have to wait until next March?
You're not really the customer for this if you're thinking retail. Sure, it's a patch set for end-users, but the main target is corporate / volume license customers (for example, higher ed) customers who want updated media, drivers, etc. and don't want to move to Vista yet. They're still going to be able to get and use XP (downgrade rights) via their license agreement, and many will probably use XP for another couple of years.
??? What planet do you live on? Vista is as efficient as an elephant in a phone booth. ???
Don't get too excited. Remember the Microsoft motto: "Our customers are our beta testers." Remember that Microsoft is the Chief of Grief -- Let someone else have the pain. Wait until the bugs are found; SP3 version 3 may be the one you want.
... the 100+ updates that Microsoft has shipped since SP2 can
be a nightmare to deploy.
Windows XP was first released in 2001. Windows XP created severe problems for us until SP2 was released in 2004.
So, Windows XP gave us 3 years of misery and 3 years of relative usefulness, but with extreme vulnerability to malware. And now Microsoft has declared the death of Windows XP in June 2008.
Is it any wonder why people don't want Windows Vista?
An indication of the hassle people had with downloading 3 years of updates is this quote from Paul Thurrott, who is over-the-top pro-Microsoft, and who often apologizes for Microsoft's abusiveness in a way that tries to make abusive behavior sound less destructive:
My opinion is that Microsoft is very badly managed. Windows XP gave us 50% big hassles and 50% mild hassles. Do you want to partner with a company that has so frequently abused you in the past?
Early Summer!
So somewhere around December then?
Something must have been pretty damn efficient to fit an elephant into a telephone booth.
not really, there's no specifics on the size of the elephant (or the phone booth)
Blazing Spiders
I'm aware there are third party ways to update fresh builds of XP in a more straightforward fashion (or integrate the updates in to the install disc), but where is mighty Microsoft on this? Where is the value here?
The doc says you don't need WGA.
How we know is more important than what we know.
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.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Considering SP2 did (IIRC) I would assume so.
All your base are belong to Wii.
Will it make it out before the proposed "EOL" for XP in June?
I'm sorry, I'm to tired to be witty at the moment so this message will have to do.
You sir have made me go log in for the first time in years to post a reply to Slashdot. Incorporating the only animal that can't jump, and Microsoft into a legendary parable... We need to invent new words to describe awesome.
"You sir have made me go log in for the first time in years to post a reply to Slashdot. Incorporating the only animal that can't jump, and Microsoft into a legendary parable... We need to invent new words to describe awesome."
Wait just a minute. I'm sure elephants can jump. I've seen it in lots of cartoons.
I reserve the right to think for myself. Others' opinions are optional. Puppy on lap = typos...not illiteracy.
Yeah, I know. How the fuck do you think I'm on the net right now? Still, it takes a bit of homework and pre-planning to get it to work properly, which is a bit above and beyond for the average XP user thinking about Linux. Good luck with Gentoo, btw. I used it for about six months a few years back and "never again" is all I gotta say.
Jesus is coming -- look busy!
Just wanted to say thanks; driverpacks.net has saved me so much time and hassle slipstreaming and integrating images for work. Between driverpack.net, RyanVM, WPI, nlite and msfn.org forums, I've saved countless hours. I would have spent all that time either collecting files, writing scripts, etc. or just going through a Dell 'clean' install (which, even at my fastest, takes about 3 hours to slim down and then install the company apps, and configure/add to domain). Your driver packs saved my bacon a few months ago when the Dell cd drive died and I had to use one off the shelf. I've also pulled raw infs from them on occasion when I've needed a driver that I didn't want to hunt down. Thank you!
If I mod you up, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what you've said, sorry.
XP SP2 is ancient, and doesn't have tons of drivers for things as basic as SATA (for your harddrive), or new network interface cards. This makes win XP installation on newer machines a nightmare.
Are they going to be selling win XP SP3 cd's with SP3 and drivers?
As a side note, reading the download page and spec was pretty funny. They must have mentioned "XP SP3 doesn't contain new features" (it actually does contain new features if you read further) like 5 or 6 times. Someone is pretty scared that XP is going to kill Vista.
But will SP3 install WGA?
A phone booth is where Clark undresses into Superman, Peter undresses to Spiderman, the Shoeshine boy turns into Underdog, and Dr. Who does some really strange stuff.
Where have you been?
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Don't get the ISO, it's corrupt
I thought it was white men
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Elephants can in fact jump and rather high, too. Just not here. They've been patiently guiding human evolution until we reach the point where we can take them to the moon.
If Vista didn't suck, you'd have no reason to complain...
That's a pretty big "if" right there. If Vista didn't suck, I'm sure some of the anti-MS zealots would still complain, but there would be a lot more of us (myself included) that would be willing to move off of XP.
As it is, the choices are:
a) XP: Doesn't run things like DX10, newer hardware, and support is being curtailed
b) Vista: Make powerful machines run like crud, and base-level machines cause you to reminisce fondly of your old 386. Extra, useless cruft. Familiar menus relocated for no apparent reason.
c) Alternate OS (Linux, etc) Learning curve (for some). Doesn't run all software that the above may run. Doesn't run all hardware. Less (but growing) industry support/recognition
None of these are exactly a perfect choice... I would have been happy with a Vista/Linux dual-boot if not for the suckitude of Vista.