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Windows XP SP3 Released
By Joseph Hunkins at April 29, 2008 1 CommentsMicrosoft has released Windows XP SP3 to the web in several languages including English.
Concerns over the general overall quality of the Microsoft Vista Operating System have put Microsoft in a bind with respect to longer term support for the XP environment.
Many companies as well as individual users have no intention of upgrading to Vista in the near future. In fact some installations have actually reverted to XP from Vista, preferring what appears to be the superior stability and familiarity of the XP Operating System.
My personal experience has been that OS upgrades are generally more trouble than they are worth, and I’m happier when I wait rather than plunge in and face the incompatibility consequences of the upgrades. Although it’s probably not a good path to profits, I’d prefer to see Microsoft focus on the *smaller picture* with respect to software and improve things incrementally with easy-to-install upgrades rather than bring out massive, potentially bloated, and often challenging brand new programs.
Labels: Microsoft, operating system, software, vista, xp
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Smaller and more frequent updates are great, but you can’t upgrade the security model like Vista has without replacing large chunks of the operating system, and you can’t jump to 64 bits without an entire OS replacement. Most importantly you can’t advance the web until we get rid of IE6.