Microsoft Suggests XP SP3 RC2 the Final Pit Stop RTM Next
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Release Candidate 2 could very well be the final beta stage of the Windows XP Service Pack 3.
At least this is what Microsoft is indicating. However, there is no official confirmation at this point in time of the fact that XP SP2 RC2 is indeed the last pit stop of the service pack ahead of RTM. The indication came from a member of the Internet Explorer team, working on the development of IE8. Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 the past week at MIX08, and offered various versions of the browser tailored to specific versions of Windows from Vista gold to Vista SP1 RTM, XP and Windows Server 2008.
Microsoft has already confirmed in an email to Softpedia that IE8 will be able to run on Windows XP SP3 once the third and final service pack for XP is released. At that time, I tested IE8 Beta 1 on Windows XP SP3 RC2 build 3311 and found that the browser installed and run with no problems. Jane Maliouta, the program manager for IE8 Deployment and Management, revealed that IE8 Beta 1 does support "Windows XP SP3 (RC2 candidate - Build 3311 or higher)."
But at the same time, Maliouta stated: "IE8 is not supported on pre-release versions of Vista SP1 and XP SP3. When installing on earlier builds of Vista SP1, IE8 just wont install and you will see this error "The installation does not support your operating systems current Service Pack version." When installing on earlier builds of XP SP3, the wizard will proceed but your system will be missing KB946501 which is required for IE8, and hence, your installation will be terminated." (emphasis added)
Now, if IE8 Beta 1 does not support pre-release versions of XP SP3, then why does it support Windows XP SP3 (RC2 candidate - Build 3311 or higher), which is essentially a pre-release version of XP SP3? Yes, I know that the repetitions are quite unpleasant, but they are meant to emphasize the fact that XP SP3 RC2 might be one and the same with XP SP3 RTM, or very close. Much in the same manner as Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh 2 was in fact Vista SP1 RTM. But as I've already said, there's no official word from Microsoft to confirm this.
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Comments(10)
xp sp3 rc2 = xp sp3 rtm?
hummmmmm.. maybe! =]
yes ie8 is better but still it is not capable like mozilla firefox
new build 5503 is avialable
new build 5503 is avialable
see :
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4075167/windows_xp_sp3_eng_v.5503
i used ie 8(beta) on sp2 itself.
no problem
????? i is not know? someone is help me???
the answer is simple here. ie8 requires xpsp3 to change some core code because of the way
ie8 is being developed. ie was always tightly integrated with windows, but as ie is now
being coded with a source code security checker and when vista was being coded ie was
brought into its own component instead of being fully tied to the os.
micro$oft, quit bullshitting us
my bad :p
hi winxp will be final for one-two weeks but version for final is 5.1.2600.3380 this is
real don't use some bugs modificication version
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By DR. GORI on 15.03.2008 - 04:03