Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Mar 2008 17:55 UTC
"After many rumors as to when Windows Vista would get its much-anticipated first service pack looked improbable, Microsoft has finally dropped SP1 on the masses. SP1 rolls together 23 security updates and 550 hotfixes into a 434.5MB download (726.5MB for the 64-bit version). Apart from improvements brought by individual updates that are now part of SP1, changes that SP1 brings by itself to Microsoft's flagship OS are numerous."
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2006-12-05
That's what I'm really waiting for!!!
And those performance boosts promised, that should put Vista in the shame corner.
That's what I was wondering too... until about a month ago, when I nuked my WinXP partition in disgust with Microsoft's attitude toward future updates to the operating system. It just seems like Microsoft does *not* want to support XP at all anymore, whatsoever, so it's about time I stop supporting them.
It's become disturbingly obvious that Microsoft wants XP to just die a quick death, which shows in their silence regarding SP3 news and tendency to try to get people to just forget about it and "upgrade" to Vista, so let it be. If they weren't forced to release it by their market share of XP systems, SP3 would be vaporware. Now I'm using something else... and it sure ain't Vista.
On top of that, when does XP support (ie. updates, patches) officially end again? I recall it being relatively soon, as in within just a couple years.