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NeoWin claims to have their hands on an internal memo from Microsoft that says Windows XP Service Pack 3 will hit next week.

As you can see in the list below, most of the stages will occur before the end of the month, though forced automatic updates won't land until June. This delay should give system administrators an ample amount of time to prepare for the upgrade or simply come up with an excuse for when things go awry.
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I'm curious what other features they're adding besides simply all the updates for the past couple years. Anything interesting or worthwhile?
 
i just hope your wrong...i dont want to go back to loosing 10 fps across the board...

how dare you say that
 
fuelvolts said:
so which is it? next week or next month?
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No offense, but did you actually hit the link? Technically, both.

* April 14, 2008: Support is available for the release version of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP
* April 21, 2008: Original Equipment Manufacturers, Volume License, Connect, and MSDN and TechNet subscribers
* April 29, 2008: Microsoft Update, Windows Update, Download Center
* June 10, 2008: Automatic Updates
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Dethman said:
i just hope your wrong...i dont want to go back to loosing 10 fps across the board...

how dare you say that
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I'm sure as heck sticking with XP for now, depending on if UT2k4 gives me probs with my coming 88GTS-G92. I wonder how large the DL will be for SP3(guess that also depends on what updates ya already have).
 
fuelvolts said:
so which is it? next week or next month?
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I actually asked the same question myself, but whatever. I guess if you read it carefully it's true for both situation.

It's available next week, but depending on which applies to you.
 
Love-Man said:
I just hope it totally breaks XP and we can all just move on to Vista. :p
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I just totally hope Vista doesn't get another service pack for 3 1/2 years, forcing the sheep that migrated to the POS to apply 100 hotfixes to get up-to-date every time they install from scratch.
 
Great! It's been a while since I slipstreamed SP2. I'm due for a fresh XP install, too.
 
I've been using it on a few machines for several months now, and I haven't noticed any changes from SP2. I think it is mostly just to integrate all the patches and fixes released since sp2.
 
djBon2112 said:
I'm curious what other features they're adding besides simply all the updates for the past couple years. Anything interesting or worthwhile?
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Read the article, they are putting in UAC and the Aero interface. They are also going to trim about 5-15 frames off each of your games... Oh wait, that IS Vista? Just ignore that last part :)
 
Great a update to downgrade XP, for what ? I can only assume to make Vista work better and faster. If SP3 is anything like any of the RC's I tested it is just going to slow XP to the point where we are going to be forced to switch to Vista for a performance boost. I will be passing on SP3. XPSP2 works just fine I doent need the 20% or so graphics performance loss the RC's gave me.
 
Hmm, you know when I read on Microsoft that SP3 was coming and along with update rollup it would include "enhancements", the first thing I thought was, uh oh, Vista lite to try to make us all make the move to Vista.

No thanks. I keep my updates done, any updates I haven't installed are either because it's nothing I would ever use or it's a software/hardware update and we all know what Windows Update can do with those.
 
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