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Windows XP SP3 Leaked

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  • bobcrotch, on 10/25/2007, -28/+283HAY GUISE LETS PIRATE AND INSTALL A BETA SERVICE PACK HOW LEATSAUCE LOL
  • Cymrubeats, on 10/13/2007, -0/+173Sp2 is pretty rock solid, so no way would a jeopardise that by installing an unreleased beta. I think i'll wait until after it has been installed by the masses, and let them do the additional bug finding (which there will inevitably be, we are talking about going from being tested on a few 100 hardware/software configurations to 10,000's)..
  • dcharti, on 10/10/2007, -7/+148I'm at the point where I won't even trust officially released service packs until they've been updated once or twice, nevermind these pre-beta leaks. If anything, it's fun to watch newsfeeds from the sidelines to see who blogs about how bad this kind of software borks up their system.
  • corneliusJones, on 10/13/2007, -2/+112i wish i could download the pre-beta SP3 too. there's no way that could go wrong.
  • SirNoobius, on 10/10/2007, -5/+105why the hell would you download a microsoft service pack beta?
  • MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -7/+101Why would you want this?
  • Irfit, on 10/13/2007, -8/+94http://www.meganova.org/details/783801.html
    lalala
  • schoate09, on 10/10/2007, -6/+77Drivers=Not Microsoft's fault
  • Shadow503, on 10/13/2007, -12/+67Windows XP SP3?!? I thought that was Vista!
  • handler, on 10/13/2007, -2/+57I'd agree with SP2 being solid. I'm a linux and mac user. But I use my XP machine at home for gaming and such and it has been very good for me. Its probably been 4 years since I formatted and it still runs great on the same hardware.
  • consonance, on 10/10/2007, -7/+58Wow, I had no idea that Microsoft was even developing SP3. This means that Microsoft hasn't bailed out on XP users, as many people have suspected.
  • Firehed, on 10/13/2007, -0/+51Because in order for their accounting methods to be legal and to avoid the biggest financial ***** in the history of ever, they need to support the software that you purchased.
  • pfdude, on 10/10/2007, -3/+54It's not "leaked" when Microsoft offers it to anybody who is willing to beta test it. If you want to call it leaked, then okay..
  • Evildudetx, on 10/13/2007, -1/+49Yeah, sorry, if its not coming directly from Microsoft's website, there is no telling what some ***** has added.
  • redxii, on 10/15/2007, -6/+54You're thinking about Apple.
  • joe90210, on 10/10/2007, -6/+50what crawled up the writer's ass?
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -9/+50Well unlike most tech companies MS actually keeps on supporting their old products for a very long time. Hell, they even supported win2k till last year.
    When was the last time you heard of apple still providing support for something of theirs (OS9 for example) for more than 6 full years after it was originally released?
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+44Dugg for "leatsause"
  • Chuck0078, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37its just a service pack, that they'll push out as an update anyway, pointless to get the prerelease download
  • BillyG123, on 10/13/2007, -11/+41Since you're so happy to have it, why not make it available so others don't have to wait?
  • Toothy1911, on 10/13/2007, -0/+29AFAIK from what I saw the other day its not even a beta, its a pre-beta. I wouldn't touch it if I were you.
  • corevette, on 10/13/2007, -3/+29screenshots and more: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-XP-SP3-Lives-Available-from-Microsoft-Leaked-Screenshots-62041.shtml
  • doshindude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23actually, AFAIK, win98 was supported till 2006.
  • mashw, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23If you love linux so much why don't you marry it?

    Hi-five!
  • MadGouki, on 10/13/2007, -3/+25Why would you want a leaked version of a service pack? A beta service pack doesn't sound like a very stable update.
  • Disfnord, on 10/13/2007, -1/+23Irony? I believe the word you're looking for is sarcasm.
  • fbombs, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24You're right. Microsoft gave third parties plenty of time to collaborate and update drivers.
  • tech42er, on 10/13/2007, -7/+26Why would MS make a SP3? I thought they wanted people to get Vista.
  • OswaldKenobi, on 10/13/2007, -1/+20He was posting sarcasm.
  • razmech, on 10/10/2007, -10/+29I wouldn't download it legally.
  • crackedplastic, on 10/10/2007, -4/+22What's up with the picture of the dork on that page?
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+22Other than copyright law preventing them from linking to it?
  • gcnaddict, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20Why the hell would you even think about downloading a Microsoft service pack beta? I can understand downloading a beta OS just to take it for a test run, but installing a service pack takes more time because you need to install the parent OS first.
  • JasonQG, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20I don't think they need to *add* that...
  • Sal42, on 10/13/2007, -2/+19never heard of it
  • lowbot, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19SP1 was solid too. I'm getting sick of people complaining about anything new. The vista moaning is the same moaning I heard from win98 users who upgraded to XP. Now XP is loved.

    Secondly, most of the hotfixes in sp3 are already on your system. The idea is to rolll up all hotfixes from sp2 onwards. There will be some other enhancements probably but 90% of it will be all the updates since. So youre pretty much already running sp3. funny how that works.
  • shuffle2, on 10/13/2007, -0/+16...maybe that's why it's been delayed for a few years, eh?
  • whatsoncemore, on 10/13/2007, -1/+17alpha?
  • raitchison, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18For the home user it probably doesn't make much of a difference, they already have XP SP2 and are (hopefiuly) up to date patch wise.

    For business users especially but really anyone who is doing a new installation of XP SP3 would make a huge difference. Installing from XP with SP3 slipstreamed in would result in a system that doesn't need (or doesn't need many) updates compared to the ~65 updates needed now for a fresh install of XP with SP2 slipstreamed..
  • irieKEN, on 10/13/2007, -0/+15It's because the corporate world won't touch Vista with a 10 foot pole. XP is going to be around for a while... Hell, a lot of companies still run 2K.
  • adolfojp, on 10/13/2007, -0/+14Windows 98 was supported until mid 2006. XP will be supported for a while.
  • houndeyex, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17Did you pay them royalties for using the name of a fruit in your comment?
  • MioTheGreat, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Microsoft's impelementation of the d3d10 API was developed concurrently with Vista, and the WDDM driver model. They would literally have to code the entire thing from the ground up to make it XP compatible, and probably cut features and performance. I mean, Direct3D is just an API, and certainly it COULD be implemented on XP, but given how much they've changed behind the scenes, it's not just a simple matter of them tweaking it to work on XP, and given that they want to push Vista, they have no incentive too.

    Oh, also the graphics drivers writers haven't exposed any dx10 features in their XP drivers, so they'd have to start that from the ground up too...
  • chilekillr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Rootkit.
  • jues, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Don't be so short sighted, this is the final round-up of all the patches and security holes since SP2.
  • Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Christ you're an idiot.
    Can you give me an example of this Vista DRM and spyware crippling my system, because I've been running Vista since 4074 and I've not yet seen it.
    SP2 a recompile? Do you even know what compiling is?
  • zweben, on 10/13/2007, -1/+13mom?
  • humperdeath, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12since this is an odd numbed update, I suppose I'd get it, but not until it is officially released. I've been a Guinea pig too many times. no more!
  • NatieB, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Yeah, I would think a pre-beta unreleased patch would probably have the exact opposite of the desired effect in terms of plugging vulnerabilities and exploitable flaws.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11As much as I would like a couple of improvements to XP, a pre-Beta is probably not the way to get them.
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