Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Mar 2008 17:55 UTC
Windows "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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RE[2]: XP sp3?
by SlackerJack on Tue 18th Mar 2008 19:19 UTC in reply to "RE: XP sp3?"
SlackerJack
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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RE[3]: XP sp3?
by Kakihara on Tue 18th Mar 2008 21:31 in reply to "RE[2]: XP sp3?"
Kakihara Member since:
2007-06-09

Considering increasing popularity of cheap, low performance machines like Eee, microsoft should keep XP running and selling. Otherwise, they would leave the marked with only possibility for OS - Linux.

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RE[3]: XP sp3?
by vikramsharma on Wed 19th Mar 2008 17:04 in reply to "RE[2]: XP sp3?"
vikramsharma 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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RE[4]: XP sp3?
by Shannara on Wed 19th Mar 2008 20:11 in reply to "RE[3]: XP sp3?"
Shannara Member since:
2005-07-06

Why blame the OS for the hardware vendor's laziness?

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