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Details On Windows XP SP3 Leaked

Posted by kdawson on from the man-on-the-inside dept.

crazyeyes notes the leak of 7 pages of secret Microsoft information on the upcoming Service Pack for Windows XP. Quoting: "We were the first to break the news on the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and the final RTM schedule of Windows XP Service Pack 3. Now, we will be the first to release the full details on Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 3, which as we know will be available for manual update on April 29, 2008."

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  1. This big news... by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Windows XP Service Pack 3 will contain hotfixes and updates released since Windows XP SP2."

    The rest of the details aren't quite as shocking. I hope nobody gets fired for leaking this controversial info.

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  2. Re:GNAA Penis Rocket To The Moon Project by Spad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mod parent up - it's more interesting than the article.

  3. Just an ad-farm site with no new info by Little_Professor · · Score: 5, Funny

    This article[Next page] has absolutely no[Next page] new or "secret" information[Next page] at all.[Next page] What a waste of [Next page] 5 minutes of my life.

    1. Re:Just an ad-farm site with no new info by Barny · · Score: 2, Funny

      {huge banner ad}I am glad{huge banner ad}[Next page]{huge banner ad} it is slashdotted to{huge banner ad}[Next page]{huge banner ad} hell then.{huge banner ad}

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  4. Re:DO NOT RTFA by eclectro · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's an empty non-story with NO new information. Don't reward them with ad hits. Furthermore, the operating system that it is about is a non-story with NO meaningful improvements. Don't reward them with an install.
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  5. Re:DO NOT RTFA by WK2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Way ahead of you, man. I already didn't RTFA, and didn't plan to. I was just going to leave a bunch of comments on it, and imply that I read it.

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  6. Re:DO NOT RTFA by IBBoard · · Score: 5, Funny

    How likely is that anyway? 1) It's TFA and this is Slashdot and 2) it's about Windows and not Linux/Unix/other geeky stuff. That leaves a tiny proportion of /.ers as potential link clickers ;)

  7. News? by jcr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Windows continues to asymptotically approach adequacy. Film at 11.

    -jcr

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  8. Re:DO NOT RTFA by niceone · · Score: 5, Funny

    DO NOT RTFA

    I have mod points, but unfortunately there is no +1 Redundant.

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  9. What we need... by jd · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...in HTML 5 is the ability to generate negative clicks. Negative clicking an ad-ridden site would give them negative numbers of viewers.

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  10. rtfa by spandex_panda · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think that alex zarkoff is the worst for next page, to find out what I mean go to page 2... Oh and I love that nobody RsTFA (and I hope that actually DOES stand for reads the fucking article, and not something sophisticated)

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  11. Re:Links to service pack here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Holy crap...glad I haven't had to waste my time on windoze all these years...! :-)

    That's quite a list. And how many hours is an individual required to waste on all of this junk, just to have a (temporarily) functional system?

    (Snickers while browsing the net on ubuntu system, with firefox and 5 tabs open, while downloading several files, posting to /., etc.)

  12. Re:GNAA Penis Rocket To The Moon Project by killmofasta · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nominate poster for pilot program.