Discover your moment on Lufthansa.Beta of XP update made public
Microsoft on Tuesday said it will make publicly available a beta version of Windows XP Service Pack 3. But, like a car salesman pitching the new Corvette over the old jalopy, Microsoft argued that a switch to Vista is the better move.
"While Windows Vista provides the most advanced security and management capabilities of any Windows operating system, Windows XP SP3 will ensure PCs running Windows XP will have the latest updates, as well as compatibility with the Network Access Protection functionality of Windows Server 2008," Microsoft said in a statement.
Lest anyone misread that as an endorsement, Microsoft goes on to say that "Windows XP SP3 does not bring significant portions of Windows Vista functionality to Windows XP."
The service pack has already been delayed several times as Microsoft has put its focus on getting Vista out the door and then updating that release.
Microsoft issued a release candidate version of XP SP3 in November and expanded its testing earlier this month, promising the public test version would come at some later date.
For anyone who still wants to try the darn thing, Microsoft says, the beta should be up on Microsoft's Web site later Tuesday and ready in final form in the first half of next year.
During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina.
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I sure hope this is true. I don't want Vista functionality. I only have a gig of ram on my laptop.
Hey Microsoft, you'd have to pay me 3k or more for me to actually use Vista - that's the cost of a halfway decent gaming rig running Vista that'll match the performance of my current XP rig.
why would they make it so hard for consumers to upgrade (oops sorry, DOWNGRADE)to vista! most pc's or laptops made before 2005 arent able to use it!
besides, it sucks anyways...
Eventually applications will come out that will be optimized for Vista and 64bit computing, but thats probably a year or two off ane even then you may not find a compelling reason to upgrade.
Currently Windows XP Pro is the best windows available.
- XP is still better
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by stockyjoe
January 2, 2008 4:04 AM PST
- And I have Vista at work, in a network environement. I can tell you from experience that Vista offers no compelling reason to upgrade from XP Pro and secondly, Vista has some serious flaws and compatability issues. The copy/move files ability in Vista is broke. Its extremely slow especially when transferrring a lot of files across network drives. MDC tools to manage users in an active directory network is broken and so much more. Shall I go on...
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