Yep, time to cut off XP.
Thurrott being the MS koolaid drinker that he is, I don’t see much reason to discount the information.
MS’s own history would also lend validity to it, I’d think.
In fairness, I think you should point out that eliminating SP3 is editorial speculation on the part of the author, not anything that has been stated by Microsoft. Without clicking the link and realizing that the article is basically a blog, it reads as though Microsoft had in fact cancelled SP3.
Also, I didn’t see anything there about Linux?
IB4GE
I’m sure GE can respond better, but internally MS has a SP3 and has been labeling certain hotfixes as SP3 for at least a year.
To those who create their own slipstream winXP install disks, ryanvm.net has continuously updated SP3 slipstreams available. Every few months as more SP3 fixes are added by MS, ryanvm.net recompiles the slipstream and privides a torrent to d/l it.
I have a feeling I’m not saying anything most people here don’t already know though.
It’s hard to say—IIRC, MS announced that they were going to release an SP1 for Vista later this year. Not to mention that they finally released SP2 for Win 2k3...
Could simply be an XP SP3 in the works; just tightly wrapped and possibly putting in some additional crap.
My guess is that MS is going to take its sweet-ass time and try to, er, convince people to upgrade to Vista—all while going ahead on Fiji and Vienna.
Linux is still the superior option; its primary problem is that it is still largely perceived as a geek’s OS.
This is crazy and beyond inconvenient to customers who have XP. If they left it like it is now, someone who installs XP with even SP2 slipstreamed, after the OS install the user has to download and install around 50 updates from Windows Update for bug and more importantly security patches. Even with a fast computer on a broadband internet connection this process takes around 1-2 hours. They could easily create a SP3 with all of these updates rolled into a single install. Not to do so is a slap in the face to existing customers who bought XP in good faith.
Why? Because Microslop won't issue any "security" fixes for it? Baaahhhh. If your XP isn't secure by your own hand and efforts....you should be using Linux anyway.
I intend on using XP until the apps I use on it no longer are upgraded by the manufacturers.
THEN it will be off to LinuxLand.
HF
Linux pushers are hilarious, trying to criticize Microsoft for still supporting Windows XP, which was released 6 years ago, when their hokey linux crap isn’t usually supported even 2 years by the original distributor.
Red Hat Linux was version 7 back in 2001. LOL support for it was cut off along with the whole family of Red Hat Linux in 2004. Yet they try to point the finger at others for limiting support ROFL.
Microsoft is going after royalties for patent infringement. Not surprising. Just chutzpah.