Microsoft Delays Windows XP SP3 to Late 2007

WindowsITPro.com ^ | January 17, 2005 | Paul Thurrott

[Psycho_Bunny]

Reading whiny complaints like yours always makes me think, "Bet that guy wishes he knew something about computers."

[big'ol_freeper]

And you would be completely ignorant, as one would expect from a Microsoft kookaid drinker. Thanks for the straw man anyways.

[djf]

Trouble is, though, some of the content providors and subscription services might require it.
Napster requires either Win2K or XP.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Trouble is, though, some of the content providors and subscription services might require it.

Not initially they won't. I'm sure there'll be phase-in period of a couple years of some sort. There are some services that will download to Win98 as the minimum requirements.

If the providers do demand that the minimum has to be a Windows Vista, then they're shooting themselves in the foot, because nobody isn't going to spend $300 bucks for a new or upgrade Vista OS unless they flat out buy a new computer that has it already.