Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed - Gizmodo Comments

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

hannabach — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:17:37 EDT

I'm downloading it right now...

hannabach

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

scott johnson — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:55:42 EDT

This is too funny. I just downloaded this from a microsoft.com site yesterday!

scott johnson

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

kylo4 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:21:23 EDT

Those other ones are legitimate Microsoft releases right and not something those sites conjured up? How did they get it so early? Sorry if I'm a little suspicious of them, I wanted to do the update for the 'parents computer, hoping it would run smoother. Plus I have this thing where I just like the products getting updates. I know, it's strange.

kylo4

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

masteryoda — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:01:02 EDT

Delay XP updates to speed Vista sales. Thats the mantra at Microsoft.

masteryoda

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

Metkis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:06:49 EDT

Didn't the last "speed increase" for Vista actually make it slower? Just saying I'm not going to count on that alleged speed increase.

Metkis

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

Dickey — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:37:40 EDT

like who usually updates things from MS right out of the gate anyway. I used to wait like 6 months minimum before doing a service pack update just to see all the bugs get worked out.

Dickey

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

_newuser_ — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:13:23 EDT

so when is it going to be officially released? WHEN?
i need to know WHEN gizmodo!!!

_newuser_

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

spaceman37 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:29:30 EDT

And a good thing. We do have Dyanmics deployed for our retail shops.

spaceman37

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

legacye — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:10:28 EDT

Can someone let me know if XP3 is as secure as Vista?. That's pretty much the only reason I would install it for a dual-boot at this point.

legacye

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

dantaylor08 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:49:46 EDT

Well considering the enterprise version has been out for a while now....

btw I installed enterprise last week and doing great - faster bootup (may just be my imagination), and the os is (definitely) generally more stable and responsive.

dantaylor08

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

Denver_80203 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:46:06 EDT

Funny it was out this morning. I have spent the whole day slipstreaming it and configuring a new sysprep image for our work machines. Since we're not in the retail business, I'm sticking with it. Risky? yeah. Care? not much.

Denver_80203

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

Papa Midnight — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:34:49 EDT

Service Pack 3 prevents the installation of Nero :(

Papa Midnight

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

bbfreak — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:28:36 EDT

Wow, color me surprised, they've delayed it again and on the day it was suppose to come out as well! Smashing Microsoft, just smashing!

bbfreak

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

strider_mt2k — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:17:31 EDT

Aww man.

My attempt at putting Hardy Heron on my secondary computer has been unsuccessful, so XP nneds to keep jammin'! :|

strider_mt2k

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

scarbrtj — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:13:49 EDT

I seriously got a little pit in my stomach there for a sec when you said "Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System" because 1) I didn't know what it was, and 2) I thought it was some new form of DRM or copyright protection I was going to have to combat.

scarbrtj

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:09:53 EDT

@Hiphopopotamus: But I thought it rocked!

Oh well, we can wait another 5 years.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

Hiphopopotamus — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:08:43 EDT

Take that, stupid ecosystem!

Hiphopopotamus