200,000+ Downloads of Windows XP SP2 from Neowin.net

200,000+ Downloads of Windows XP SP2 from Neowin.net

Tom Warren on 21 August 2004 - 14:36 · 40 comments & 3057 views

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We're pleased to announce that more than 200,000 people have successfully downloaded XPSP2 from Neowin.net over the past 2 weeks. We initially hit 200,000 downloads on the 11th August and have been tracking the Official Microsoft link since then.

We'd like to thank those who mirrored the update before it was available generally on Microsoft.com and to everyone who makes Neowin what it is :)

Stay tuned for SP3 news ;)

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(2 replies) #1 winxptwker on 21 Aug 2004 - 14:38

Thanks. I was one of those 200 000 people who downloaded SP2 through Neowin.

#1.1 Cheese Whiz on 22 Aug 2004 - 01:38

I'm sure their hearts are in the right place, but cream, et al. haven't done anyone a favor by offering alternative d/ls to SP2 ahead of Microsoft. Much of the service pack is devoted to security, but this d/l frenzy amply illustrates that it's the user, not the os, which places computer systems (and networks) at risk.

What if creamhackered had posted a link to a dodgy file. How many would have blindly d/led and installed? How many would have been able to tell it were bad w/out a publicly available baseline (on Microsoft.com) to compare it with?

Apparently, 200,000 of you decided to put your systems and those your're connected to @ risk.

#1.2 PseudoRandomDragon on 22 Aug 2004 - 03:00

Yeah, what if creamhackered did that? I think if he did, he would get in a lot of trouble and maybe we would be able to sue.

#2 chuayw2000 on 21 Aug 2004 - 14:41

LOL!!! Wait till they sort out SP2 first then worry about SP3.

(1 reply) #3 Keito on 21 Aug 2004 - 14:56

Whoa! Those neowin alerts rule... first one I gotten.

and does anybody know when localized versions start to appear, it still keeps saying my system language doesn't cope or something >.<

#3.1 Cuirinus on 21 Aug 2004 - 15:16

It is said that my localized version (the Norwegian one) is set to be released in the middle of september. I guess most Western European versions at least should be finished by that time.

#4 seeya on 21 Aug 2004 - 14:58

yea man .. neowin alert rulezzzzzzzzzzzz !!!!

#5 Hurmoth on 21 Aug 2004 - 14:59

SP3? Let's not get to far ahead of ourselves

(4 replies) #6 Gian-Pa on 21 Aug 2004 - 15:01

I WANT ITALIAN VERSION!!!

#6.1 tiagosilva29 on 21 Aug 2004 - 15:13

I want the Portuguese (from Portugal) version!

#6.2 ramik on 21 Aug 2004 - 18:14

any plans for arabic version

#6.3 chacho on 21 Aug 2004 - 18:35

QUOTE

any plans for arabic version

if there is an arabic version of windows xp, i'd say theres a pretty good chance of arabic sp2

#6.4 Tantawi on 21 Aug 2004 - 20:11

Yes there's is

#7 rIaHc3 on 21 Aug 2004 - 15:01

i was part of the 200000+ download too!

#8 kronik on 21 Aug 2004 - 15:04

I was one of those 200,000 also. can i have a cookie now?

(1 reply) #9 jameseuk on 21 Aug 2004 - 15:12

not really sure why this is worth a news post

maybe its a slow day for news?,lol

#9.1 chacho on 21 Aug 2004 - 18:38

eahh quit whining.

#10 AminoSC on 21 Aug 2004 - 15:12

I just got this through Neowin alerts too!

#11 Jason on 21 Aug 2004 - 15:14

How many have download from Microsoft ?

#12 stuey82 on 21 Aug 2004 - 15:34

A step in the right direction... Thank you NEOWIN and NEOWIN TEAM. You have done us all proud by providing correct links and information! Nice One!

... Ps. My SP2 is working fab!

#13 rock_ya_baby on 21 Aug 2004 - 15:51

me too got from neowin link

(1 reply) #14 Mister Lamar on 21 Aug 2004 - 16:20

Most users ever online was 1,657 on Aug 9 2004, 07:35

The Most trusted site on Tech news..

#14.1 MegaManXcalibur on 21 Aug 2004 - 17:09

What you just listed is the most people that were on this site at one time. The 200,000+ downloads was the number of people who downloaded Service Pack 2 over a specific amount of time.

#15 [ timko ] on 21 Aug 2004 - 16:21

I got mine straight from the official windowsbeta.com but if I hadn't then NW would have been next in line

#16 noroom on 21 Aug 2004 - 16:39

i thought MS said they weren't going to launch an SP3 because of the leaked longhorn versions.....

#17 IbSta on 21 Aug 2004 - 17:27

Is your version the 2180 aswell?

#18 tom5 on 21 Aug 2004 - 18:45

Really? But there's definitely one thing you didn't track - the broken link to SP2 on your site

http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp2/default.asp = 404

#19 R-Style on 21 Aug 2004 - 19:13

SP3 is SO cool!!!!!

#20 bingham. on 21 Aug 2004 - 19:48

sp3?????? crazy stuff

#21 Winnerboy on 21 Aug 2004 - 21:12

SP3? huh! cool.

#22 Krome on 22 Aug 2004 - 01:16

Guess what? You host links from data.neowin.net to collect datas... I did not allow that DNS because I notice neowin also hosts ads server from there too... so I copy the link and extract the download link... Many ppl might have done the same... thus the hit may go over 200,000... Yeah I see the "+" but I just want to add myself to that "+" list...

#23 tommie on 22 Aug 2004 - 03:12

(2 replies) #24 cyruspoonawala on 22 Aug 2004 - 07:50

whts so ****ing amazing abt this....

microsoft servers are much faster than the lame neowin ones....

#24.1 me101 on 22 Aug 2004 - 16:56

don't think you understand...

the link to the sp2 download from neowin was just that, a LINK which downloaded the sp2 file from microsoft's servers, NOT neowin's.

all neowin did was to track the actual number of times the url was used, and just think that 200,000 figure is just up to and including 11th August... I wonder just how many more are there from the 11th to now...

neobond/redmak, any chance of an updated figure

200,000 x .266gb that's over 52,200 Gigabytes... eek...

#24.2 noroom on 30 Aug 2004 - 07:45

you mean MB

(1 reply) #25 Scorbing on 22 Aug 2004 - 17:27

Yeah. MS has one hell of a mess with SP2 and I am sure they will fix it before releasing it to the public which means the RTM they sent to the big companies will be useless.

#25.1 RangerLG on 23 Aug 2004 - 16:37

Well that useless post was way off topic.

I know mine is too so no need to reply.

#26 jerry on 22 Aug 2004 - 17:34

QUOTE

Stay tuned for SP3 news

I'm sure most of us would want an XP SE.

Last edited by 32225 on 22 Aug 2004 - 17:46

(1 reply) #27 sy89 on 23 Aug 2004 - 12:06

are you sure these stats are true? maybe everyone clicked the link and then pressed cancel on the download from microsoft?

#27.1 noroom on 01 Sep 2004 - 01:15

lol.

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