pslewis

Yet ... for Windows XP?

I did think maybe the Computer Forum - but it's such a universal question I thought maybe NSR?

Graz

Not been offered that particular update by M$, though I do tend to keep it all up to date as advised by the update program. Therefore I'm guessing it's just all the patches released since SP2 bundled up into a single package.

No doubt they'll be dropping the support for XP soon anyway and only doing Vista updates

pslewis

Thats a point, it's probably just all the updates from SP2 to date. I, too, have been keeping up to the minute updates.

f1_fan

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Not so sure about that. I have noticed that XP seems to be staging somewhat of a come back. For instance Dell have started offering it as an option on machines where 4 months ago they only offered Vista.

I have Vista on one of my machines but really found it too flaky with some of my peripherals so currently it dual boots into XP and I use XP most of the time. Vista looks very nice, but for me there are no upgrades worth the extra hassle as yet.

A pity they dropped the Internet filing system from the final release as that had a lot of proimise.

BlkKnight

It's not officially been released yet.

There is a "leaked" version out there on the interweb though

Kieran_Burns

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SP3 is a Release Candidate NOT a finished product.

The d/l is 330Mb and the final product will be about 75Mb. So you're best NOT installing it unless you're a developer. There will be all sorts of bug checking code in there that will slow things down in daily use.

Wait for the final consumer release before installing it

pslewis

Cheers

davegtt

Just installing it at the minute at work on a spare machine we have Its not a bug release either

Kieran_Burns

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For more info on the RC Version of SP3: PC Pro: News: Microsoft springs XP SP3 surprise

PeteBrant

Details of whats in it here

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...20Pack%203.pdf

I wouldn't get too excited