Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th Oct 2007 14:53 UTC, submitted by Margret Hennesy
The first officially-released build of Windows XP SP3 has surfaced, with 1073 patches/hotfixes and several new features. This build has been made available to testers as a part of the Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 beta program and is available in English, German, and Japanese.
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The problem is that they're making 'gradual breakages' to the point that customers know that each release is going to break something major.
The solution; completely overhaul the operating system rather than incremental breakages; then at least people *know* that the following release will less like to introduce mini-breakages.
Member since:2006-01-12
I am still ordering XP laptops from HP. they are getting a bit harder to find at a decent price though.
Vista simply isnt ready for decently priced systems. I should be able to spend 1000 a system and have it work with decent speed, vista isnt capable of that (i recently tested a brand new Dell, 6 minutes before the desktop was usuable)
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2005-11-12
I think it is interesting to see how Microsoft has had to change their policy regarding Windows XP. Initially when Vista was released there were indications XP was soon to be abandoned. Then Dell and HP complained their user base was still requesting XP. I run a dual boot XP/Fedora box and XP works fine. Upgrading to Vista would overtax my box due to the increase in system requirements. It is pretty much a no-brainer that until the box is really outdated I would have to stick with XP or build a new one. A lot of businesses appear to be in a similar situation and they don't have enough good reasons to upgrade to Vista. I don't know exactly what this all means but it definitely points to some sort of paradigm shift regarding Microsoft and their OS releases.