Microsoft To Release XP SP3 Next Week
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 21.3.2008
Now that Windows Vista service pack 1 has been released, all eyes have shifted to Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)'s plans for Windows XP service pack 3, the final package of updates for the trusty OS.
And, according to at least one source, Microsoft will roll out XP SP3 next Monday.
As of Wednesday afternoon Pacific time, the BitTorrent search engine Mininova listed a 568.73 MB Windows XP Professional SP3 5503 file available for download. The file, which had 112 seeds and 417 leeches, had been downloaded 2083 times since it was posted Tuesday, according to the listing.
According to the file description notes, Microsoft will release the final version of XP SP3 on March 24, but the 5503 test build passes all Windows Genuine Advantage checks and is able to download Windows updates that previous XP SP3 builds weren't able to, which suggests that it could, in fact, be the final RTM build.
When Microsoft released Vista SP1 in February, the final RTM code was identical to the Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC) 1 Refresh 2 test build that was released to a group of 15,000 testers two weeks earlier.
A Microsoft spokesperson, perhaps weary from the months-long barrage of Vista SP1 related inquiries, said the final version of XP SP3 is still on target to be released the first half of calendar year 2008, and the XP SP3 5503 build was a minor interim build released to address one specific issue for a subset of private beta testers.
"This build was not intended for public release, and anyone who has that build and is not part of the private beta is working with bits that Microsoft can't verify the integrity -- it's possible the bits may have been modified with malware or other bad code that Microsoft hasn't tested," the spokesperson said in an email.
XP SP3 was originally slated for release in 2006, but Microsoft has delayed it on numerous occasions since launching XP SP2 in August 2004. In February, Microsoft released XP SP3 Release Candidate 2 through its Download Center to users running PCs with XP SP2 installed.
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wait a minute...i dont give a rats behind.
hehehe i dont care either microsoft is full of dodgey shite!
xp is old and not the future. xp is for people with old and slow computer.
vista 64
sp1 is fast and stable.
cool, i have a slow pc. i am so excited now, i am off to have a wank about the release of
sp3..
i have an old slow computer. i don't mind because i have a large penis.
at yippie:
why would i want vista? anything vista can do, anything, any program xp
can run faster, smoother, so whats the point b.itch? i have a legal, yes legal copy of
vista ultimate i took off for xp pro. because vista is bloatware, the piece of c.rap takes
twice the ram and cpu, and offers nothing in return. i'll bet my pc is faster that yours
loser, dual, single core xeons at 3.8 ghz (intel's current fastest chip on the planet)
with four gigs of ddr2 ram, gforce 7950 nvidia video card, so just shut up! why would i
want vistas spyware? i dont need drm thank you, 9defective by design) drm is more
bloatware using pc resources. vista is only a stepping stone to windows 7. right now i
guarantee 99% of sane it people are not liking or plan to adapt vista except at gun point.
its a looser!
vista is a resource hog plain and simple with no reason to exist. maybe
give microsofts partner intel business, all the dumb people who are duped into buying new
hardware just to run a turkey like vista! gobble gobble!
why do you have 4 gb of ram when your system cant use all the 4 gb of ram. your video
card is a relic, and your processor is from the past. now i understand why you defend xp.
vista 64 is the best if you got 4 gb ram and a dual core or quad core, and a geforce 8800.
it rocks and always stable and ultra fast.
i have an animal farm po.rn collection.
how i long to make sweet s.exual time
with sheep and goats.
mmmmmmm just thinking about goat anus is making me
hard........
i am also gay.
adams:
32-bit xp can support 4gb of physical memory. period. in fact, given an
appropriate processor, mb, chipset, etc., and version of xp 64server it can suppot up to
128gb of physical memory, period. even after the hal changes in xp sp2, xp plain vanilla,
normal user 32-bit xp, vs the server stuff that is mostly similar at the core to xp can
support 4gb of physical address space.
if you don't know off the top of your
head what awe, pae, largeaddressaware are, then please don't post such nonsense as xp can
only support 3gb..blah blah blah. there is a maximum of 3gb virtual address space for the
application code itself, with 1gb in this case used for the kernel componenents on top of
the 3gb. the rest of the address space can be used for whatever a large address space
aware application wants by dynamically remapping this memory into the application address
space. within, in the case of the non server windows versions the 4gb physical address
limit forced in for example the hal for sp2. bottom line: there is no 2.2, 2.75. 3.2 or
whatever gb number limit for physical memory you've perhaps seen for xp, other than 4 for
a current version of xp or who knows for an incorrectly engineered motherboardchipset.
there are many subtleties to using these options. not only must the os and
processor support say pae for example, but so must the chipset, and not all do. for
example certain intel chipsets simply terminate the transaction for writes 4gb, and return
zeroes for reads 4gb. in addition, with things like pae on, device drivers may be
presented with 64 bit addresses, which many are not built to handle. in some cases, the
top 4 pins of the cpu address lines aren't even used on some motherboards, strictly
limiting them to 32 bit addressing.
now, to answer your question:
certain hardware requires memory mapped io space within the 4gb physical address space
because of the hardware architecture. bios tables, pci devices, agp, network interface,
and certain others, for example, using 32 bit base address registers, must be mapped
within the 0x0-0xffffffff address space. there's no way around this with current hw that
needs to behave the way it has for many many years for backwards compatibility. this does
not steal memory, per se, from you, but address space. depending on the number of devices
mapped by the system this way, and the needs of those devices e.g., bigger gpu memory
more mapped space needed, you can lose a gig or so of address space.
you can
look at this roughly by going into the device manager by getting resources by type, and
expanding the memory node.
with a normal home user setup, using a normal
windows xp install, you'll just have to live with the fact that some amount of memory is
no longer available to you for your applications. it's still there, but part of the
address space has been used for your devices, so it's just ignored.
and using
the memory remapping feature of your mb bios, if it has it, won't do you any good either,
at least not with a 32-bit os. if you're using a 64-bit os, or a properly configured pae
aware 32 bit os, and the chipsetmb properly does the remapping not all do, you would then
be able to see and use all of the 4gb in fact, on one of my systems using unix, the boot
messages show 4.5 gb of ram, even though the system has only 4gb. this is because of the
way the system calculates ram size combined with the use of the bios memory remapping for
my devices.
if you'd like to learn a bit more on this, a good place to start
that's not too technical is at:
http:msdn.microsoft.comlibrarydefault.asp?urllibraryen-usmemor...aselar
note:
this stuff is a bit out of date as far as os support e.g., xp obviously supports pae, and
in fact this is turned on by default in xp sp2 if you're on a cpu that supports hardware
dep, but xp is not listed in the documents. see, for example:
http:www.microsoft.comtechnetprodtechnolwinxppromaintainsp2mempr.mspx - read the 'dr
so if i want vista to work i need to spend hundreds of dollars on a new pc?
tell me,
what are the benefits of xp over vista? what can vista do better that xp cannot?
anyone???
what do you use your pc for. if you play games. you need a pc with memory and cpu power.
vista 64 is your os. if you not play games. stick with a 6 year old os from the past.
it can not crash!
i dare you to be honest and tell me xp doesn't crash.
vista cannot crash? wow that would be nice. i'll check it out
it crashes much less than xp.
why bother with vista? xp is much more responsive, reliable, stable, everything runs fine
on it (try recording streams from the web on vista, or playing eax games) and more
important windows 7 and the notorious miniwin are next to your door.vista is like me.a
crap os to play with, up to the time the real one gets published.
vista is nothing like me, only a stupid person would come to that conclusion.
vista is better than xp is more secure.
only idiot is not think this!
vista is also dreamscene and is very good. look very good.
xp is old os is
not have all the things we need.
i like vista.
vista ftw.
vista is easily crack.
sp1 is also good
sp3 xp is not so good.
jake the snake is gay.
thankyou x
windows x shine has work to do
yes, that's what i like to see. intelligent discourse and reasoned argument!
bunch of fannies...
f you all!!!
ok, so here are the facts: sp3 is making a good os better and sp1 for vista is making a
not so good os just worse .... the end. there's nothing more to say. it's a fact!
bill gates mad he cant get no h1-b visas
windows x' shrine may stop supporting this because microsoft doing cat and mouse thing
to finally get it out of the way, no, vista transformation pack 8 is not supported on
windows xp sp3. sp3 obviously brings some changes to system files in windows xp and can
cause many compatibility problems with vtp.
if you plan to run vtp on your
machine, we strongly suggest you avoid installing windows xp sp3.
also, if you
do decide to install vtp8 on a system running xp sp3 or install sp3 on a system with vtp8
already installed, we will not provide any support should you encounter any problems.
as sp3 is still in pre-release stages, it is constantly undergoing changes and
improvements, thus until it is finished and no more changes are being made, vtp will not
be updated to support it.
thank you for understanding.
microsoft windows xp service pack 3 build 5508 (20/03/08)
size: 316 mb
download
:
http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/software/svpk/2008/03/windowsxp-kb
936929-sp3-x86-enu_c1996fe3afe721f3962a15d6666603ec857f4095.exe
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microsoft windows xp service pack 3 (sp3) provides
new proactive security technologies for windows xp to better defend against viruses,
worms, and hackers along with increased manageability and an improved experience for
users.
microsoft windows xp service pack 3 fixes a range of bugs in windows xp.
it doesn't matter what xp updates you have previously applied to your system, sp3 will
update any unpatched, partially patched or completely updated system (it includes all
previously released patches and updates). xp sp3 fixes the security holes so you won't
get attacked.
microsoft periodically combines updates, fixes, and other
improvements into a single package - service pack. microsoft develops updates, fixes, and
other improvements that address issues reported by the company’s customers and partners.
to make it easier for customers to get these updates and enhancements, microsoft
periodically combines them into a single package, and makes that package available for all
windows customers.
these packages are called service packs", microsoft
revealed in the introduction of the overview of windows xp service pack 3. with the
release candidates of vista sp1 and windows server 2008 heading to increased testing pools
the past week, and with microsoft cooking the first public build of the first refresh for
its latest windows client, the official overview for xp sp3 is the only crumb from the
service pack fiesta over at the redmond company. the release candidate of xp sp3 in a
pre-final stage has already shipped to msdn and technet subscribers.
i have been running xp since beta back in 2000 sometime all the way up to now sp3. now
when xp was young yes i had crashes some but now ... crashes !! have seen one, in what, a
year. i run an anti virus, i clean my drives regularly, i scan my registry religiously
and defrag once a month.
crashes... don't get 'em. games that hang yes but can
recover to desktop and run the game again no reboot. i have four pc's and just to let you
know, many people run them and they do not crash.
i have no problems with xp that is
why i don't want to go to vista. friends have it and they say it is more trouble them
what it worth.
by the way i am a computer tech by trade. more then 15 years.
cooool!! i have fast computer and vista but i will install xp sometime.. :d
linux fastest xp 2nd fastest vista last
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