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[furrbear]

From the boffins @ The Register:

Microsoft kicks out third Windows XP service pack

By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco → More by this author

21 Apr 2008 19:58

That Vista/Server 2008 look

Microsoft has released to manufacturing Windows XP Service Pack 3. The fresh software disgorgement will be made availablefor download through the Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center services on April 29.

SP3 wraps up all previous Windows XP fixes and throws in some new features that bring management in-line with Microsoft's latest client and server operating systems. Microsoft promised updates won't "significantly change" customers' experiences with the operating system.

The service pack includes Management Console 3.0, which ships with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, the new Windows Installer 3.1 and a component used in Windows Server 2008 that checks to make sure upgrades and security features have been applied before the machine is allowed onto the corporate network.

For more on SP3 go here and here.®

Comments

[brinah.livejournal.com]

** Places head in hands and weeps **

[winstonthriller.livejournal.com]

As Edina Monsoon once wailed, "I DON'T WANT MORE CHOICE, I JUST WANT BETTER THINGS!!"

[jaybear.livejournal.com]

Eek! Sounds like they want to Vista-fy my beloved XP.

Time to turn off the automated feature in XP Updater, boys and girls.

[serenity-cub.livejournal.com]

oh god, im so not going into work the day that patch comes out

*runs and hides*

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

This bit is interesting:

"XP Embedded and Windows Fundamentals will be available at a later date."

So ... I understand SP3 for regular XP not working on XP Embedded ... but the regular patches and updates work on WinFLP - so I'm wondering why SP3 wouldn't.

Needless to say - as soon as SP3 comes out, I'm going to be testing it on a disposable WinFLP VMWare image. ;)

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

SP3 (Beta 3 aka) RC 1 has been available for some time. Two months, as I look - my copy has a Feb 18 date on it. One box is running it full time since then.

I wonder if MMC 3.0 will crash as often as 2.0 does.

[reb2.livejournal.com]

Apples are getting prettier and prettier