Details On Windows XP SP3 Leaked 140
crazyeyes notes the leak of 7 pages of secret Microsoft information on the upcoming Service Pack for Windows XP. Quoting: "We were the first to break the news on the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and the final RTM schedule of Windows XP Service Pack 3. Now, we will be the first to release the full details on Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 3, which as we know will be available for manual update on April 29, 2008."
DOJ mandates windows user interface now?! (Score:3, Interesting)
If those parasites don't like it they should ask for a private build. What's next?!?
Re:DO NOT RTFA (Score:4, Interesting)
Modify your Comments Configuration [slashdot.org], and place a +2 Redundant reason modifier. I do this as I think Redundant is the second worst mod option (after Overrated on Funny comments)
Re:What we need... (Score:3, Interesting)
Link to direct download from M$ (Score:1, Interesting)
http://blog.hishamrana.com/2008/04/23/windows-xp-sp3-leaked-onto-bittorrent-and-usenet
I came across a Microsoft page that wasn't up anymore, 5th result down linked to a page that isn't up anymore. Using google's cached results I came up with this link:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/3/5/53519680-fcc0-4a00-86e0-e7d5cba84461/WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe
Re:This big news... (Score:2, Interesting)
I'll consider the fact that more game makers are beginning to add Linux to their operating base, which makes OpenGL, SDL, and other alternative game libraries that aren't tethered down to Windows more of a prospect now. When OpenGL goes 3.0, how do you think even DirectX 11's Graphics API will compare?
But, I get the gist of your post. Microsoft, like with Windows ME, really dropped the ball on Vista. Made a bunch of vaporware promises, made an incompatible, bloated, insecure, unstable system, and started living in a reality distortion field wherein Vista has virtually no problems. That reality distortion field isn't as bad as Apple's, but it is bad enough that Microsoft seems to think that Vista is a crushing success despite documented dwindling install/user base and growing Linux, OS X user bases.
This makes me wonder about Windows 7. I have my doubts it will be an improvement. (Well, maybe over Vista, but it'll uphold the Microsoft tradition of mediocrity.) And news that Microsoft will be trying to release it sooner is an indication that Microsoft is scared to shit of what Vista has done to Windows' reputation. Because Windows 7 is getting rushed now, I imagine it'll be a piece of trash, like all the other rushed Windows versions out there. (Ironically, Vista wasn't rushed, and yet it still managed to be absolute FAIL on so many levels.)
Re:DO NOT RTFA (Score:3, Interesting)