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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!!!
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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Incorrect...
XP SP3 (RTM) Has the Build Number 5512.
Windows XP SP3 - detailed by channel schedule
Channel / Release Vector
Planned dates (US)
RTM (release to manufacturing) - Apr-21
OEM Channel - Apr-21
Windows Update - Apr-29
Download Centre - Apr-29
MSDN/Technet Download - May-02
Windows XP SP3 Fulfillment Media - May-19
VL Customers via download - Jun-01
Automatic Updates - Jun-10
SP3 is not a bug fix but rather a rollup of previous fixes that users should already have and a few new features - mostly related to networking. There is no "patch" to exploit.
Uh, SPs are just packaged updates since the last major release. XP SP2 was the exception this time around. You already have most of SP3, if not all of it, if you've been staying up to date.
The most notable new feature of SP3 is that it allows more CD keys to be entered into it, since they are extremely close or have run out of new ones to print that XP, XP SP1 and XP SP2 will recognize.
The SP3 via automatic updates seems to mean to me that they are waiting that long to have a special SP3 download (like the massive 300MB or so SP2 offline installer)
"We need to get over this notion, that, for Apple to win... Microsoft must lose." - Steve Jobs, 1997
WTF? Why do MSDN and VL customers get this later than Windows Update? What exactly are we paying for?
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
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.
Early Summer!
So somewhere around December then?
Something must have been pretty damn efficient to fit an elephant into a telephone booth.
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
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."
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.
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.
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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