Windows XP SP3, Finally!
Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News
April22nd2008
Finally, it seems the last major update to our beloved Windows XP is just around the corner! For a while, I thought we'll never get to see a third service pack for Windows XP from Microsoft, but it seems I was wrong. The best part of it is that we'll have to wait only about a week until Windows XP SP3 becomes available for everyone!
Yes, ladies and gents, this is official! Microsoft announced that Windows XP SP3 has been released to manufacturing, and will arrive on the 29th of April, as a standalone installer. After that, SP3 will also become available as an automatic update, but that is expected to happen in June.
As you probably have figured out already, Windows XP SP3 includes all previously released Windows XP updates, but according to Microsoft, no significant Vista functionality is going to be added by this service pack. Well, it seems we won't play DirectX 10 games on XP, but at least they included Network Access Protection (NAP), saying this move was made to "help organizations that use Windows XP to take advantage of new features in the Windows Server 2008 operating system."
At last, you should know that IE 7 won't be included in Windows XP SP3, but things like the Microsof Management Console (MMC) 3.0 and the Microsoft Core XML Services 6.0 (MSXML6) have been included, as well as an update of Windows Product Activation.
These being said, let the countdown begin! There are 8 days until SP3...
As you probably have figured out already, Windows XP SP3 includes all previously released Windows XP updates, but according to Microsoft, no significant Vista functionality is going to be added by this service pack. Well, it seems we won't play DirectX 10 games on XP, but at least they included Network Access Protection (NAP), saying this move was made to "help organizations that use Windows XP to take advantage of new features in the Windows Server 2008 operating system."
At last, you should know that IE 7 won't be included in Windows XP SP3, but things like the Microsof Management Console (MMC) 3.0 and the Microsoft Core XML Services 6.0 (MSXML6) have been included, as well as an update of Windows Product Activation.
These being said, let the countdown begin! There are 8 days until SP3...
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3 Comments on Windows XP SP3, Finally!
On 04/23/2008 at 4:05 pm Nazar said:
Even better! Ubuntu 8.04 is released tomorrow!
On 04/23/2008 at 4:10 pm KodrutZ said:
Lol!
What's better? I don't want to start a war here, but for now, Windows XP SP3 should be great for a lot of people. After that, maybe some of them will land in the Ubuntu camp... or not.
On 04/23/2008 at 4:33 pm Windows XP SP 3 said:
It's about time. One more reason to avoid Windows Vista.
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