The Only Way for Windows XP SP3 Is Down
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 12.4.2008
SP3 will do nothing for XP, but still more than what SP1 will do for Vista - The third and final service pack for Windows XP will do little to nothing for the operating system, but will manage to deliver a superior boost to the platform's momentum in comparison to Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista.
Via SP1, Vista has indeed grown into its own, but the latest operating system has to carry around the ballast from the failed Wow, and the variety of problems that plagued it through the first year on the market. Service Pack 1 will need time to turn the public perception of Vista by 180 degrees, if it will ever manage to perform the task, and give migration and upgrading scenarios to the latest Windows operating system a feeling of inevitability.
Unlike SP2, XP SP3 is just a standard service pack, so standard in fact that end users will barely notice any differences. It will certainly not even reach the same level of evolution SP1 is bringing to Vista. Still, the focus comes not on changes but on the strict perception of an update. The perspective, erroneous as it may be, that XP SP2 is superior to Vista RTM, has already become generalized among consumers, and SP3 is only going to accentuate it. Vista SP1, available since mid-March 2008, combined with price reductions for the most popular editions of the platform, will without a doubt contribute to fueling adoption through the retail and OEM channels.
At the end of 2007, Vista RTM went over the 100 million sold licenses milestone, and is right on track to hit 150 million earlier than mid-2008, which would mean that uptake is accelerating. At the same time, XP has lost market share throughout 2007, and the trend will only continue to accentuate this year. And what it comes down to in the end is that the critical aspect of Vista SP1 vs. XP SP3 is intimately connected with the audience of each operating system. The install base drives the ecosystem of third-party developers to focus on the platforms, and in its turn, the focus of the ecosystem of software and hardware solutions fuels an increase in the adoption of the operating system. Vista is not an exception to this rule. Neither is Vista SP1.
Statistics Don't Lie, the Only Way for XP Is Down
With or without SP3, the only way for Windows XP is down. Statistics don't lie in this regard, and with Vista commercially available since January 2007, XP debuted on a path of slow decline in terms of market share. The end of the road for the operating system made available in 2001 will be June 2008, when the operating system will no longer be offered for sale as retail boxes, or pre-loaded on new OEM machines. With the exception of the computers delivered by system builders, which will be available until mid-2009, and on ultra low cost PCs, that will live to see Windows 7. In this context, emerging markets will offer the most consistent growth for XP SP3, but still not sufficient.
Yet, XP is not going anywhere by any measure. Michael Dix, General Manager of Windows Client Product Management, revealed that there is "no impact on our technical support plans [for XP] – mainstream technical support will continue to be available until April 2009 and extended support will continue until April 2014." And judging by the examples of Windows 2000 and Windows 98, XP SP3 will live well beyond its support kill-off deadline in 2014, only that it will do so with an eroded market share. source:
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Comments(19)
had vista for months now cracked and legal heaps better then xp if you have the ram..
one of the reasons why microsoft is being more secretive about xp sp3 rtm is that they
may be cooking up a rewritten code from the release candidates. then they could deliver
something that'll make xp run like crap just in time for june 30th.
what
microsoft doesn't seem to be paying enough attention to is the fact that xp has lost most
of its market share not to vista, but to osx and linux.
playing around with an older machine i just patched up (athlon xp 2100 based) i decided
to give ubuntu 7.10 a shot, just for fun. after an hour, i can do most things i do on
windows. surf the net, send e-mail, burn images, play on irc etc. and it comes with office
(open office) all 100% free, never entered a serial.
i've never been a linux
fan but i'm leaving it on that computer to get to know it. ms is in trouble.
there is no free will here. microsoft is pushing vista on new computers, but no one
reveals how many downgrade to xp or install linux .
vista is the next os. you are bashing it just like you bashed xp when it first came out.
buy decent hardware or dont run it.
you would only dream to have the rapair option
in xp like the one in vista. it's more easier to handle repairation in vista and
partitioning your harddisk and so on.. stop bitching
vista is spyware. vista still enforces digital restrictions management (drm) --
technologies that companies like disney, warner, netflix, universal, apple, sony, amazon,
fox and microsoft are trying to impose on us all in order to have control over how our
computers are used. i am staying with xp for now. if windows 7 has drm i will switch to
gnu/linux.
amh, you're full of crap. just like vista. vista is nothing but bloatware. also, many of
the features new to it already existed in linux and linux is more stable and reliable than
vista as well.
to : me
off course windows seven will have drm .
i mean drm v2 !
lol
that will send full report to microsoft
about everything done in your pc
and for that windows seven will require you to have 4mb minimum dsl always turned on
or windows seven will go to
ultra reduced factionalty and it will call the cia
!!!
give ubuntu a try man..its a hell lotta better than windows in every way possible..
i tried ubuntu because my vista crack stopped working with sp1. say, its great. i use
wine to run xp programs... no xp required. very cool. coll as a penguin!
if your vista crack failed get a slic bios...
every homebuilt i have are
running slic modded bios, no crack required. sp1 doenst notice either
naw man, i tested this one, just go in a best buy with a friend and a palm pilot, have
your friend read the serial number from any one of a dozen pcs...write it down. works
better than a crack!
the only thing vista is driving is the adoption of osx and ubuntu.
i had a laptop with vista already installed, erased that & installed xp pro & the laptop
is like being turbo charged. so there's one licence that can be removed from the
statistics. i would estimate that at least 30% of systems sold with vista on have been
downgraded
i'd switch to linux if they worked out how to run directx apis properly or they
developed a new standard entirely that is actually better and if they managed to come up
with an os that doesn't need retro "command lines" so i can press a button rather then
typing out a string of code every time i want to install something.
don't get
me started on macs...
/end rant
this was a pointless article from the get-go. you repeated what every one already knew
months and months ago.
quote: "sp3 will do nothing for xp, but still more than what sp1 will do for vista".
how is it possible to do less than nothing?
i like ubuntu. nicely and goos linux os. that why i'm using dual os, 1 ubuntu and others
vista. got free cd from ubuntu website. you can apply it if you don't want to download.
free of charge..
as usual, 64 bit version of xp is not supported.
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