Wed
Jan
18
2006

Windows XP SP3 delayed

Microsoft appears unable to ‘multitask’ O/S development.
With all the effort going into getting Vista out the door this year, SP3 for XP has been delayed until late 2007!
That’s an extrordinary gap between Service Packs for a major o/s like XP, and a bummer for admins and anyone needing to install XP from an SP2 disk – by late year the post-XP updates list is going to be pretty long.
Here’s a Bink post about it…

Posted by Neil, 18 January 06
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  1. So, after all the wait is Vista really going to be worth it?

    Seems that some significant updates (features not security fixes) to XP would have been of more value.

    — Simon · Jan 18, 06:49 PM · #

  2. Well, for a natural cynic like you Simon, who knows? ;-)
    There are some nice advances and new features that will be attractive to some people. But I suspect XP will have an ongoing significant role for quite a long while yet, and quite legitimately.
    A lot more about Vista will become clearer at the next beta release…

    — NeilA · Jan 19, 05:04 PM · #

  3. Those new Intel-powered MacBooks look pretty tempting. Maybe there really IS an alternative to Windows…

    — Richard · Jan 20, 11:40 AM · #

  4. They are nice looking… and I’m sure they are nice… But use one? I still hate the way Apple does so many things (browse my posts on my iPod experience for some reasons!).

    — NeilA · Jan 20, 11:48 AM · #

  5. I can’t believe this. I just performed my annual fdisk/reinstall ritual and was confronted with downloading more than 100 MB of windows updates over dial-up! Fortunately I was able to get some service packs off the mirror at work which cut the MB’s, but I can’t believe they’re putting off SP3 until late 2007!

    — Pete · Feb 14, 06:02 PM · #

  6. Now Pete, A couple of things:
    Why are you doing an annual “fdisk/reinstall” with XP? Unless you run a lot of funny software, run beta software, or install/uninstall lots of stuff it really isn’t necessary for the vast majority of users…
    Secondly, while SP3 is a long way away, I understand there will be ‘update rollups’ available, and I tend to keep a slipstreamed vesion of XP fairly up to date.
    Oh, and you can always get broadband, or come and leach off the church connection. ;-)

    — NeilA · Feb 15, 02:43 AM · #

  7. Call it a hang over from when my PII really did run faster after a good format.

    Call it spring cleaning.

    — Pete · Feb 15, 07:05 PM · #

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