In an email sent to selected testers telling them they have been accepted to begin testing XP SP3, Microsoft has also informed them that this will be the final Service Pack for the now aging OS.
Therefore it will be quite fitting to see the final Service Pack for XP arguably one of the most stable platforms Microsoft has created so far, landing around the same time as Service Pack 1 for Vista its much maligned latest OS. Lets us know which you would prefer as your OS of choice now by voting in the poll attached to this news item.
News source: In House
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As is standard practice for operating systems nearing the end of their sales period, Microsoft will be releasing a final Service Pack for Windows XP in the first half of 2008. Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta Preview, to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 beta testers.
Therefore it will be quite fitting to see the final Service Pack for XP arguably one of the most stable platforms Microsoft has created so far, landing around the same time as Service Pack 1 for Vista its much maligned latest OS. Lets us know which you would prefer as your OS of choice now by voting in the poll attached to this news item.
News source: In House
So, really, what's the sense of SP's if you've been updating all along.
Along the lines of this thread. How come none of the polls on this site show the results after voting anymore? Must be another part of that poll on the front page asking about Neowin still needing work. Yes, it does big time.
For starters, network administrators can deploy updates through corporate or small business networks to hundreds or even thousands of computers with a single Service Pack .exe file, instead of using Windows Update individually for each machine.
1) Sometimes there are updates in a service pack that cannot be deployed in any other way. Kernel changes for instance. It would not be practical to replace the kernel of an operating system in a Windows Update download.
2) Service Packs save you time when installing an operating system from scratch.
p.s. The poll results show after voting for me. Maybe you have cache issue. Try deleting your cache and cookies.
1) Sometimes there are updates in a service pack that cannot be deployed in any other way. Kernel changes for instance. It would not be practical to replace the kernel of an operating system in a Windows Update download.
2) Service Packs save you time when installing an operating system from scratch.
p.s. The poll results show after voting for me. Maybe you have cache issue. Try deleting your cache and cookies.
It also includes alot of the fixes which can only he accesed by 'paying' enterprise customers; those quick fixes are then tested for extended periods of time before merging.
No but seriously I was surprised they even decided for SP3. That will be very nice to have slipstreamed and keep lengthening Windows XP's lifetime. (not talking of MS' lifecycle thing here)
But still, oh boy doesn't Vista SP1 feel more urgent to me, and our company if we are at all going to consider deploying...
No but seriously I was surprised they even decided for SP3. That will be very nice to have slipstreamed and keep lengthening Windows XP's lifetime. (not talking of MS' lifecycle thing here)
But still, oh boy doesn't Vista SP1 feel more urgent to me, and our company if we are at all going to consider deploying...
Microsoft did not say that updates would stop after SP3, they just said SP3 would be the last service pack.
As was the case with Windows 2000, they will continue to roll out updates in the form of rollup packs and standalone updates which (as far as I recall) can still be slipstreamed into an installation media.
although i do agree with jugulator... where he said Vista needs a service pack more than XP does.
although for me... i aint even thinking about attempting vista til atleast SP1 for it AT MINIMUM... odds are i probably wont tough vista realistically til it's a mainstream standard... which probably wont be atleast for another year or more (give or take).
SP3 for Office 2003 + SP3 for XP makes me one happy camper.
I believe you meant Any non-Microsoft OS.
Cheers.
Give me a break once again m$
With how vista sp1 looks to be shaping up, i'm not even going to try and touch it until sp2.
Won't upgrade to vista until I have a new computer system.
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