Details On Windows XP SP3 Leaked

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."

Comments

Re:This big news...

[paganizer]

I think the really big news will be that we find out just how frakking evil microsoft is, or isn't.
Please, take a moment to think about Vista, and how reliable, quick, stable and trouble free it has proven to be. I'll wait.

dum-de-dum.

do-waaa. dum-de.

OK, back from throwing up? sorry, I'm a jerk. OK, now think of the position Microsoft is in; there are millions of XP users out there, and more every time most people with Vista manage to get hold of a XP license (as with everything, there are exceptions. I understand Vista works better than XP on Tablet PC's. And if you have one of those experimental Cray Quantum Core(tm) massively parallel systems, Vista runs fine).
Lets see, what could they do to get people to stop using XP, and START using those Vista licenses they have been giving away to make it look like they have been actually selling it?
They could maybe... leak the source code? nah. been done.
They could make a deal with game developers so that new games would only run on Vista. Hmmm. Might work.
Regardless, if they are Evil, they will throw something in the service pack which makes Vista more attractive or the lesser evil.

Re:DO NOT RTFA

[nmb3000]

Actualy "Overrated" for me is always an unfair moderation. And I metamoderate accordingly.

Umm, not sure how you do that considering that Overrated and Underrated mods do not show up in metamoderation. How could they? The only way you could fairly metamoderate the mod would be if you knew the moderation score before the other user modded the comment.

This is why Overrated/Underrated really are the weasel mods of Slashdot. I only hope that the likelihood of a user getting points is based in part on how often they (ab)use those mod options.