Inside Windows XP Service Pack 3w
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 14.8.2007
Getting inside the third service pack for Windows XP is a task accessible to all Windows XP users currently due to the fact that Microsoft's private, select and hush-hush refresh was leaked to torrent trackers worldwide.
Such a simple move obviously managed to ruin the entire translucent Windows Omerta that Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group set up once he took the lead of the Windows projects. Sinofsky is responsible for Windows Seven, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1 and comes from building the Office System with an intact reputation of not letting the product slip from its development path.
Unlike Vista SP1 delivered as a 3.2 GB ISO file, containing the operating system with the service pack already packed in, Windows XP SP3 is a standalone installer, according to APC's inside look into the refresh. Testers received a .exe file weighing in at just 330MB. This comes only to offer further proof that the version claiming to be XP SP3 available as a torrent download is in fact the genuine release from the Redmond company. The full build tad is 5.1.2600.3180 (xpsp.070718-2058) and the operating system's refresh even comes with its own knowledge base article: KB936929 (windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu). Unfortunately the additional resource is not available at this time.
Microsoft delivered Windows XP SP2 back in 2004, succeeding to throw the development of the then Longhorn project off track. SP3 was initially planned for 2006, then pushed back to 2007 and further postponed to 2008. Currently the only detail that Microsoft will officially confirm about Windows XP SP3 is that it's scheduled for launch sometime in the first half of 2008. There are however indications from independent sources that the Redmond company is actually getting ready for a release by the end of 2007. One thing is clear however from the leaked XP SP3: the refresh will not deliver any new features to the operating system and in this sense it will fail to be a repeat of XP SP2.
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Comments(21)
sp3 does not bring anything new because microsoft wants to force us all to move to vista!
i'd rather a cat :]
i too was once an ignoramus like many that visit here, and follow the sheep with comments
like "vista sux ass dood" but after realising only i can decide if vista is good for me
or not, i went for it and installed vista ultimate on my laptop, 1gb ram, 3400+ cpu, x1100
grafix, and it runs smoother-faster-better-more stable, than xp ever did! and thats on
this p.o.s machine! can't wait for my dual-core to be delivered this week, it will make
vista (even more) lickedy- split!! bottom line- try vista and make your own decision
be-atch!
vista runs fine on my 800 mhz pentium and i740 card with 348 mb ram
most people don't share as good experiences with vista as you did :)
if you've been using xp, and its gotten bogged down over time.. then a brand new vista
install will seem much faster. but just wait till your vista gets bogged down, its really
crap!
i've gone back to xp! (and will stay here for as long as i have to)... maybe
dx10 games might push me over... then again... dual boot is always available too.
xp for business and vista for my htpc!!!
your sentence did not make any sense.
i too gave vista a try. i tried it for 4 months, i really tried, but at the end gave up
cause of compatibility problems and the slowness. i mean when i buy a new computer, i
expect it to be faster, with or without vista, than the older one i had with xp. truth is
the new computer with vista although more powerfull, was slower than my old one with xp.
so what's the point of vista????????
tried vista for a few months, running top notch hardware. its fine if you're a
lightweight user, but the big boys have all gone back to xp. even xp fully bloated with
all my news, weather, stock tickers, desktop changers, messangers, torrents,
peerguardians, temperature monitors etc. and that's before you start with your apps,
email, web, etc runs way faster on xp than on vista with none of that.. until ms reduce
the amount of background crap running in vista, its simply not worth the effort..
try
some benchmarks and see for yourself what a pig it is..
hehehehehehe.
u r absolutely right mate
i tried vista for 2 weeks, got tired of it all crappy slowlines, all puttons / options in
weird places and now im back to xp because it's the best ms's operate system atm.
service packs have never really added new features. sp2 was kind of an oddball in that it
did that, but normally a service pack is only a collection of updates and sometimes a new
version of ie or directx.
and looks like it's a cumulative service pack. for people that don't even have sp1
installed.
well, if i remember microsoft said it would include ie7 and wmp11 on xp sp3...
guess
they lied again...
anyway i got xp ultimate from emule wich includes ie7, wmp11 and
much more... oh it also runs many vista applications, all out of the box.
i dont understand wot beta means so i will flame microsoft because something is missing
spite the fact that it is unfinished beta soft that has another year of testing to go
through weeeeeeee.
lets face it u need all the new gear to run vista at full like dual core cpus fast pcie
x16 video cards a mn of 2 gig ram if u got all them then give over clocking a go i have
and i get a rateing of 6.1
do some benchmarks and look on some of the sites you douche.
vista is pure junk and has too many problems , the only way you can (opt it) is on a tyan
socket 939 dual core .2 proc's board&8 gig memory , pci-e 1gig video card like my sister
computer that i built. but if you want to get one that fast,it about 4560 $$...it a server
and a very high end gaming system, use windows 64 and your in business .
but compare the performance of your sisters computer running vista with an older one
running xp. its not a big difference! xp is for now the better choice.
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By Martha on 15.08.2007 - 02:08