Wed 30 Apr 2008
Microsoft have finally made the official release of Windows XP SP3, which in their words “includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system”. Yet, the public is giving it more attention and interest than Microsoft hopes for, in it’s continuing effort to kill the OS, and replace it with Vista. Despite their official announcement to kill XP from retail store this coming June, PC manufacturers like Dell and HP have found a loophole in the possible downgrade option from Vista to XP, and will sell their computers preinstalled with downgraded XP version. This would ofcourse incur little extra cost, that they seem to be welling to take.
To read the SP3 update details, download the PDF file from here.
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April 30th, 2008 at 10:35 am
So when they said “which do not significantly change customer’s experience”. They thought it’s good for vista. The irony is, I think that this is exactly what people wanted. Why do I have relearn where is my “Control Panel” and have to deal with clicking more confirmation boxes, If the only thing I get is some fancy “AERO” and a huge OS that eats up my RAM.
Since I’ve heard the word Vista I’ve been hearing bad news about it. Good lessons for microsoft to learn.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Solo: Well, they are talking about Windows 7 since last year as well ;)
April 30th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Finally! Service Pack 3! :D
XP wont die until people start buying machines that have more than 4 GB of RAM (assuming they wont switch to the 64-bit version :P)
April 30th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
3baid: haven’t tried it personally yet. Just good to see Vista is not really picking up.
But what’s SP3 for Mac guy I wonder ;)
May 4th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
XP still performs better even though it’s less secure, but since my primary OS is OS X, then I just want XP to play with and use for the little things running at their full speed.
May 5th, 2008 at 2:32 am
3baid: Makes sense :)