Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Apr 2008 17:53 UTC, submitted by mikemuch
Windows Despite Microsoft's obvious focus on selling Windows Vista to its customers, it hasn't yet forgotten about all those people out there that still use Windows XP (personally, I use Windows XP MCE 2005). The company has confirmed it has finally 'released to manufacturing' the third service pack to Windows XP - 7 years after the operating system's original release.
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RE: Great!
by shapeshifter on Tue 22nd Apr 2008 10:14 UTC in reply to "Great! "
shapeshifter
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2006-09-19

I would be really sad to see XP reach EOL to be honest. It has been a great run for me with that OS. Sure I am using XP 64 bit now but it had turned in to quite a solid OS over the years. Heres to hoping that SP3 makes it even better...though it seems its more of a patch rollup than anything else. SP4 anyone? ;)


Solid OS?
You probably just don't know any better and I feel sorry for you.
OS is not solid when even its "safe mode" is not safe.
I was cleaning one of those "trendy" Virusheat badboys yesterday on someone's computer and the thing is starting even in safe mode.
Windows is really a pinacle of bad software engineering.
Then again, this is still the "dark age" of computing.

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