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#1 zenzen
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I read somewhere that a SP3 for Win XP will be released soon.

This is because a lot of ppl would continue to use Win XP for awhile, yet.

Anyone have some info on this?
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#2 TicTac8745
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It's going to be released eventually, since MS were busy working on getting Vista released, it was delayed.

However, I myself am satisfied with SP2, I want to see Vista SP1!

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#3 batistafan99
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Service_Pack_3
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#4 BounceDK
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Yep it's coming.. Eventually ..
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#5 yian
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Never heard of it until now. Cool! :)
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#6 camzaman
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SP3 will probably make XP worse so people will switch to Vista
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#7 atrain4
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SP3 will probably make XP worse so people will switch to Vistacamzaman

:lol: Microsoft would be smart to do that

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#8 Wesker776
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[QUOTE="camzaman"]SP3 will probably make XP worse so people will switch to Vistaatrain4

:lol: Microsoft would be smart to do that

Xbot fanboy enough?

They've encouraged hacking on their own Server 2003 platform, so it's not hard to see MS doing more underhanded actions like this. Heck, they've forced million to upgrade just to have access to DX10, which could've been easily implemented on XP Pro too.

But then again, what're going to do when no one's challenging you.

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#9 SDog624
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[QUOTE="atrain4"]

[QUOTE="camzaman"]SP3 will probably make XP worse so people will switch to VistaWesker776

:lol: Microsoft would be smart to do that

Xbot fanboy enough?

They've encouraged hacking on their own Server 2003 platform, so it's not hard to see MS doing more underhanded actions like this. Heck, they've forced million to upgrade just to have access to DX10, which could've been easily implemented on XP Pro too.

But then again, what're going to do when no one's challenging you.

well apple seems to be slowly gaining with EA announcing a lot more gaming support on mac. SP3 better be good so i can build a new computer and install it. no way in hell am i switching to vista. frickin dx10.

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#10 theragu40
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[QUOTE="atrain4"]

[QUOTE="camzaman"]SP3 will probably make XP worse so people will switch to VistaWesker776

:lol: Microsoft would be smart to do that

Xbot fanboy enough?

They've encouraged hacking on their own Server 2003 platform, so it's not hard to see MS doing more underhanded actions like this. Heck, they've forced million to upgrade just to have access to DX10, which could've been easily implemented on XP Pro too.

But then again, what're going to do when no one's challenging you.

How does that make him an Xbox fanboy? We're talking about computers here, remember?
And at any rate, it would be smart of them to do that. Maybe not from a customer service standpoint, but certainly from a business standpoint. But since when does the customer matter to a company of that size?
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#11 LouieV13
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No one needs a new XP SP I need my Vista SP1 liek right nao!
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#12 batistafan99
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[QUOTE="Wesker776"][QUOTE="atrain4"]

[QUOTE="camzaman"]SP3 will probably make XP worse so people will switch to VistaSDog624

:lol: Microsoft would be smart to do that

Xbot fanboy enough?

They've encouraged hacking on their own Server 2003 platform, so it's not hard to see MS doing more underhanded actions like this. Heck, they've forced million to upgrade just to have access to DX10, which could've been easily implemented on XP Pro too.

But then again, what're going to do when no one's challenging you.

well apple seems to be slowly gaining with EA announcing a lot more gaming support on mac. SP3 better be good so i can build a new computer and install it. no way in hell am i switching to vista. frickin dx10.

lol OS X is getting like 4 new games. haha

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#13 SDog624
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[QUOTE="SDog624"][QUOTE="Wesker776"][QUOTE="atrain4"]

[QUOTE="camzaman"]SP3 will probably make XP worse so people will switch to Vistabatistafan99

:lol: Microsoft would be smart to do that

Xbot fanboy enough?

They've encouraged hacking on their own Server 2003 platform, so it's not hard to see MS doing more underhanded actions like this. Heck, they've forced million to upgrade just to have access to DX10, which could've been easily implemented on XP Pro too.

But then again, what're going to do when no one's challenging you.

well apple seems to be slowly gaining with EA announcing a lot more gaming support on mac. SP3 better be good so i can build a new computer and install it. no way in hell am i switching to vista. frickin dx10.

lol OS X is getting like 4 new games. haha

dont be such a fanboy. its a start. what were u expecting? the whole pc game library ported over night?

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#14 knut-am
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SP3 will probably make XP worse so people will switch to Vistacamzaman
foolish, then people would just uninstall sp3 and settle with sp2
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#15 theragu40
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dont be such a fanboy. its a start. what were u expecting? the whole pc game library ported over night?

SDog624
God people throw the word fanboy around too much. And FYI, they aren't porting anything: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2145462,00.asp
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#16 batistafan99
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[QUOTE="batistafan99"][QUOTE="SDog624"][QUOTE="Wesker776"][QUOTE="atrain4"]

[QUOTE="camzaman"]SP3 will probably make XP worse so people will switch to VistaSDog624

:lol: Microsoft would be smart to do that

Xbot fanboy enough?

They've encouraged hacking on their own Server 2003 platform, so it's not hard to see MS doing more underhanded actions like this. Heck, they've forced million to upgrade just to have access to DX10, which could've been easily implemented on XP Pro too.

But then again, what're going to do when no one's challenging you.

well apple seems to be slowly gaining with EA announcing a lot more gaming support on mac. SP3 better be good so i can build a new computer and install it. no way in hell am i switching to vista. frickin dx10.

lol OS X is getting like 4 new games. haha

dont be such a fanboy. its a start. what were u expecting? the whole pc game library ported over night?

a fanboy? I have a Mac Mini, for Christ's sake. A figure of 15-20 games would have been a better start than 4.

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#17 K_r_a_u_s_e_r
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[QUOTE="camzaman"]SP3 will probably make XP worse so people will switch to Vistaknut-am
foolish, then people would just uninstall sp3 and settle with sp2



They'll probably make it very difficult to do that if you don't have certain utilities, for me I'd just re-load my GHOST image and I'm back to SP2.
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#18 knut-am
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[QUOTE="knut-am"][QUOTE="camzaman"]SP3 will probably make XP worse so people will switch to VistaK_r_a_u_s_e_r
foolish, then people would just uninstall sp3 and settle with sp2



They'll probably make it very difficult to do that if you don't have certain utilities, for me I'd just re-load my GHOST image and I'm back to SP2.

:) probably, but you can uninstall sp2 if you like, as long as its been installed as a update. i dont see the point for microsoft to skip that posibility when they release the sp3. after all, they live better of pleased customers then mad ones.
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#19 K_r_a_u_s_e_r
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My version of XP has SP2 integrated I can't remove it. I'd image they'd do that to future versions of XP.

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#20 SDog624
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ok so fanboy wasnt the right word to use but still.
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#21 MondoCool
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[QUOTE="atrain4"]

[QUOTE="camzaman"]SP3 will probably make XP worse so people will switch to VistaWesker776

:lol: Microsoft would be smart to do that

Xbot fanboy enough?

They've encouraged hacking on their own Server 2003 platform, so it's not hard to see MS doing more underhanded actions like this. Heck, they've forced million to upgrade just to have access to DX10, which could've been easily implemented on XP Pro too.

But then again, what're going to do when no one's challenging you.

I have server 2003, are you sure this isn't server 2000? I read it was 2000, if its its 2003 :(