"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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Member since:2006-04-14
Member since:2008-02-26
It's natural.
Microsoft is a company, its goal is to make money.
They have to push new products, and stop supporting old ones (not because they are bad, they just need people to buy new ones so they can meet their commercial objectives).
I'm just glad, that they will release XP SP3 (maybe last SP for XP).
XP has all the features i want for a OS, so i'm not upgrading until Microsoft makes me...
Edited 2008-03-18 18:59 UTC
Member since:2005-09-13
Microsoft is a company, its goal is to make money.
They have to push new products, and stop supporting old ones (not because they are bad, they just need people to buy new ones so they can meet their commercial objectives)..
How dare you interject logic into a conversation about operating systems. Let's get back to reality: Windows Suxorz! Linux is w00t!!
(I'll be installing Vista Ultimate in a few weeks, dual-booting with Fedora Core 8 (yes, I use both)).
Member since:2005-11-12
Why does this surprise you or are you one of those sheep who just realized Microsoft had you by the balls?
Microsoft have to sell Vista and then improve it to get people over and make more money, XP is not going to do that.
Rather aggressive I know but thats what they call tough love.
Edited 2008-03-18 19:36 UTC
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Member since:2005-07-06
and I thought Dr. Phill had a patent for "Tough Love". Vista performance is pretty bad, it take around 3-4 minutes for for Vista to shutdown on the Sony Vaio notebook we have Core2Duo 2.0 ghz with 1 GB RAM, and don't get me started on USB files transfer or a simple copy/paste command. Hope sp1 has some performance boosts to offer.
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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.