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re: Service Pack 3 - now out!
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 11:31 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(1277 messages posted)
Curb your enthusiasm. XP SP3 is just basically a "roll up" of all the previous updates
since SP2. The main reason for it's existence is to make available a whole new "pool"
of product keys for system builders. Somehow (don't ask me how) MS is running low
on installation key #s and this is the easiest way for them to avoid the problem.
Secondly, the version out now is a beta, a so-called Release Candidate. If one has
kept up with updates I don't see where installing SP3 would buy you anything at all.
When it's oficially released though, I will get it on CD so that when I do future
clean installs of XP I can run it instead of installing SP2 and then another 80+
updates after that. SP3 will do it all at once.
On Monday, January 21, 2008 at 2:50 pm, eoghan wrote:
>Service pack 3 is now out - why have microsoft kept so quiet ? Well maybe the reason
>is they don't want to put us off buying Vista. According to PCFormat Xp is now
twice
>as fast as as Vista with SP3 for XP speeding things up 10%!
>
>I for one am sticking with XP!
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