GTA Don Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 For Windows XP users, the wait is nearly over.As predicted last week, Microsoft announced Monday that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and is available to OEMs and enterprise customers. Meanwhile, downloads of XP SP3 will begin next Tuesday on April 29, also as expected. Chris Keroack, release manager for XP SP3 in the Windows Serviceability group, confirmed the news on the SP3 forum on Microsoft's TechNet site. The predictions last week were made by Windows community site Neowin, which claimed to have gotten hold of a genuine copy of SP3's schedule. That document proved to be dead-on for both April 21, the RTM date, and April 29 -- the date that Keroack has confirmed Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center would begin offering SP3 for download. One date remains in question, however. Keroack's statement points to XP SP3's release to home users via Automatic Updates in "early summer" -- technically June 21 or later -- while Neowin has said its document has the date pegged at June 10. Many users -- particularly those with older systems that they don't feel compelled to upgrade or replace -- have been waiting impatiently for SP3 as it wound its way through the development and testing process. In fact, continued demand for XP was behind Microsoft's decision in September to extend its commercial availability by five months until June 2008. Like most service packs, SP3 provides a convenient vehicle to roll up all of the bug patches delivered since the last service pack, XP SP2, which shipped in August 2004. It also adds one important new feature. SP3 provides support for Network Access Protection -- a technology for quarantining untrusted PCs from the network. The technology also comes in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. Source: Level 2 Gaming & Internet News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazza Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Heaps cool, they must be giving up on Vista or they know it's syte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 @Dazza: Have you actually ever used Vista? I just bought it 2 weeks ago and it works great. With exeption of one, I have to problems at all. I won't be switching back. They've been working on SP3 for a long time already, so what's the 'giving up on Vista' bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Gorilla Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 I have a very bad feeling about this new service pack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbanoutlaw Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I'll wait & see that I hear about SP3, so far Jace is one of the few good comments I've heard about Vista (I'm guessing the new comp is loaded). Late last year John Dvorak blasted MS & Vista for having so many versions. For those unfamiliar, Dvorak is to PCs much like what Henry Ford was to automobiles. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2209837,00.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike356 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 yeah vista is fine cept you gotta aprove everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockstarrem Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 yeah vista is fine cept you gotta aprove everything Unless you turn off UAC which is what I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA Don Posted May 7, 2008 Author Share Posted May 7, 2008 I forgot to mention, it's out now. Check out the Microsoft Update site. Works best with IE (that sounded wrong). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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