Posted on 04/29/2008 7:43:49 AM PDT by CedarDave
If you didn’t have your calendar marked this day (04/29/2008) is an important day; the third service pack for Windows XP has been released to Windows Update today. It may not be trickling down just yet but several sites have already posted manual updates that can be downloaded.
DailyTech reports that Microsoft hasn’t yet posted an official download for SP3 but BetaNews does have a download link that goes straight back to Windows Update.
Windows XP SP3 is more than just a regular Service Pack including more than 1,100 hotfixes/patches which has new features such as Network Access Protection and Black Hole Router detection.
SP3 will also bring new life into the operating system that so many are unwilling to give up for Windows Vista. Windows XP SP3 is roughly a 316MB download and will be hitting automatic updates later today or if you’re feeling more adventurous, can be manually downloaded right now. At least you won’t have to hunt down a shady source for the update any more.
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Here is the dirty little secret, they are turning XP into Vista.
Maybe they can patch my MSFT stock so it will stop its flat trend. lol
They also announced an update for Vista. The new update wipes out your drive and installs XP.
Hope it doesn’t make it worse.
You took the thought right out of my head.
Windows XP isn't dead yetMicrosoft has finally released the finished version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to manufacturing. We've been writing about SP3 for nearly six months and speculating about its impact on Vista sales, but this is the real deal!
As Randall C. Kennedy observes in today's Enterprise Desktop, "enterprise IT is fascinated with SP3. ... Microsoft has been putting on the full court press with Vista SP1, yet all they hear from their customers is, 'That’s nice. So when will we see Service Pack 3 for XP?'"
The wait is over. SP3's list of features remains unchanged from the myriad pre-releases: Network Access Protection (NAP); Black Hole Router detection; Wireless Access Protection (WAP) 2 support; new cryptographic APIs; and so on. And "one of the more controversial SP3 features -- a minor (roughly 10 percent) performance boost over XP SP2 -- seems to have survived the RTM process."
Check out the blog, and while you're at it, sign the 'Save XP' petition today!
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/04/windows_xp_isnt.html
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DO NOT INSTALL the sP1 for Vista it srews up everything - browsers, email it was a mess. I took it off and now everything is back to normal on my Vista machine.
The good news is that there's only 1,100 fixes.
The bad news is that each fix is a 20MB download.
Almost...
April 27, 2008 | Microsoft to claim Vista downgrades to XP as "Vista sales"
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ain’t touching this till there’s some feedback from folks w/sacrificial machines to beta the thing...
Our IT folks say we already have most of the fixes if we have been using Microsoft Update regularly.
Good move. However the SP-1 beta came out around the first of the year and was supposedly debugged. There will always be some machines that will balk at even a "debugged" version.
for later ref.
I tried the SP3 update from MajorGeeks last evening.
It would get about 2/3 of the way through, then error out and uninstall itself. The error was a pop up box that didn’t give much information, except ‘access denied’.
I tried twice. The 2nd time, I shut down every thing I could. It errored out again, with the same ‘access denied’.
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