I Spy the Windows XP SP3 download

re: I Spy the Windows XP SP3 download

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:51:43 GMT

Geez... 500 MB? *whew* MS does love its bloat.

re: I Spy the Windows XP SP3 download

Keith Combs — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:30:33 GMT

Are you trying to rain on my happy parade? :?)

Interesting point though. How fast is your internet connection and how long does it take to download a 500MB file? It takes me about 8 minutes. That's an average for the HTTP protocol. I was doing a multi session FTP download a couple of days ago and it was about three times that fast.

re: I Spy the Windows XP SP3 download

Phil — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:45:39 GMT

Technet in Australia doesn't have it available, at least nothing in my subscription. Is it only being rolled out to certain subscriptions to start with?

re: I Spy the Windows XP SP3 download

Phil — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:48:32 GMT

Actually I take that back, it is available just poorly visible. It doesn't appear in the downloads but as a link hidden amongst the rest of the stuff on the home page.

re: I Spy the Windows XP SP3 download

Keith Combs — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:53:57 GMT

I agree finding or discovering stuff is hard. I am also not a fan of the new navigation panes for the download area.

re: I Spy the Windows XP SP3 download

Gary L — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:29:33 GMT

SP3 for XP? Sounds great but what's this I hear from Steve B. that Xp will be phased out starting June 30?

My computer is not Vista compatiable. I don't plan on getting a new computer any time soon.

I think this is a horrible blunder on Microsoft's part.

I think if they put a survey up on the microsoft home page Steve would awake to realization that Xp runs better than Vista and on more computers. Why do they want to do this to their customers?

re: I Spy the Windows XP SP3 download

Keith Combs — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:59:47 GMT

Gary L,

Good question. Let me ask a couple. They will make it sound like I am over simplifying the issue but there are many angles to this.

First, what are you running hardware wise right now and when did you buy it? How do you get support for your hardware today?

Second, how many times have you called Microsoft for support in the past 5 years? For most poeple I bet the answer is none. The support they get from us is via the updates that flow off microsoft.com.

And the last question, when do you plan to buy another computer?

Thanks,

Keith

re: I Spy the Windows XP SP3 download

Rob — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:05:28 GMT

Keith, Do you know what category this will be in WSUS? IE7 was an Update Rollup and not part of the Critical and Security updates package. Just want to make sure this doesn't get automatically aproved on my network.