Service Pack 3 for XP Beta Available

[SUBMAN1]

Incase anyone likes life on the edge!

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-S

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Yes! It is finally moving toward release!


Word has just reached us that the long awaited Service Pack 3 for Windows XP has been made available for download by Microsoft to Beta Testers.

Coming in at 1,037.24MB this will make it one of the largest Service Packs that Microsoft has ever released. The size of Service Pack 3 will most likely present some problems for IT organizations that may find it time consuming and very difficult to deploy a Service Pack of this size.

The biggest goal of Service Pack 3 will to incorporate the vast amount of patches and security updates that have been released since Service Pack 2. These days a fresh XP Service Pack 2 install can take as much as 250MB and three reboots to download all of the patches and security updates necessary to fully patch and update a system.

Microsoft continues to say that the focus of Service Pack 3 will be about patches, bug fixes, security updates, and not about new features. With the release to Beta Testers we can only assume that Service Pack 3 for XP is still on track to be released during the first quarter of 2008 as Microsoft has indicated. Service Pack 1 for Vista is scheduled to ship before the end of the year and is currently in testing.

[waste gate]

Is this Vista in disguise? My XP with SP2 works just fine and doesn't give me the creeps if you know what I mean?

'carnivor'

[SUBMAN1]

Is this Vista in disguise? My XP with SP2 works just fine and doesn't give me the creeps if you know what I mean?

'carnivor'

I'm not loading it, if that tells you anything! My machine works! Its a bad attitude for servers (can get you hacked), but for a workstation, I might even go back to SP1!!!! As they say, if it works, don't fix it! :D

[kiwi_2005]

I will try it. I love tinkering with betas, mind you does XP really need a SP3?

[CptSimFreak]

Is this Vista in disguise?
'carnivor'

That made me LOL.

M$ realized that no one wants to buy VISTA, so they secretly made XP turn into Vista by a patch that is bigger than all of past OSes combined.

[PapaG39]

I still remember the nightmare I had getting SP2 up & running..
Things are working fine now. I will not DL SP3 until nothing will run without it & all the bugs are fixed. Most likely at lest a year after it first comes out. This time, I will WAit!

[StdDev]

I'm not loading it, if that tells you anything! My machine works! Its a bad attitude for servers (can get you hacked), but for a workstation, I might even go back to SP1!!!! As they say, if it works, don't fix it! :D

WRONG!!!
As an IT professional I can guarantee that As we say.. if it works, we can fix that! :know:

[waste gate]

:rotfl: :rotfl:

[Skybird]

Without doubt it will be available on DVD, like there have been SP2 CDs for free as well. That one I will get, but will use it only when I manually install my system new (not using a mirror-image of readied installation).

Does anyone know how MS handles it when you have eaten up all attempts to install XP from CD with the included registration code, and already have needed to call them on the phone to get a new replacement code - will I be able to use that one again in my next manual installation, or do I need to call them again now to get my third code? If so, I may consider to buy a new copy before XP is taken of the shelves inJuly. Just to be independant from that service when wanting to use on my next (hopoefully far away) system too, and MS eventually shutting down the telephone line.

Or could I use my backup image of my then old system despite the different hardware - would that installation then self-adjust to the changed hardware components when it is started the first time (drivers for graphics board for example can be changed manually)? I love these backup images, it is as time consuming as manual installation of all the stuff I have, but I must sit sit 8 hours beside it and nurse it by hand and manually make all the confirmations and adjustements, but can let it run by itself while doing other things.

[em2nought]

Without doubt it will be available on DVD, like there have been SP2 CDs for free as well.

MS better provide SP3 on CD for free now that they've forced Autopatcher to take their free downloadable product off the internet. :down:

[HunterICX]

I'm not loading it, if that tells you anything! My machine works! Its a bad attitude for servers (can get you hacked), but for a workstation, I might even go back to SP1!!!! As they say, if it works, don't fix it! :D

WRONG!!!
As an IT professional I can guarantee that As we say.. if it works, we can fix that! :know:

:up: :rotfl:

So damn true!

I always know, if something aint broke,
it will be fixed in the next patch :lol:

[STEED]

When I put SP2 on my old PC it went to the wall no thank you.

[fatty]

Remember:

The biggest goal of Service Pack 3 will to incorporate the vast amount of patches and security updates that have been released since Service Pack 2. These days a fresh XP Service Pack 2 install can take as much as 250MB and three reboots to download all of the patches and security updates necessary to fully patch and update a system.


If you have been keeping up with your Windows Updates this service pack will probably not be of any use to you at all. If you format your drives and re-install Windows every 4-5 months like I do, it is a Godsend.

[Jimbuna]

Thanks but no thanks my machines and SP2 are getting along just fine :yep:

[STEED]

If you have been keeping up with your Windows Updates this service pack will probably not be of any use to you at all.

Spot on as I insure I keep up to date with the down loads. SP3 sounds for those who don't keep up to date.

[antikristuseke]

When I put SP2 on my old PC it went to the wall no thank you.

I remember having horrible problems with the early version of SP2, though the issues it created were eventualy fixed, sort of ironic that something created to suposedly fix problems ended up greating a lot more, at least for a while.

[Jimbuna]

When I put SP2 on my old PC it went to the wall no thank you.

I remember having horrible problems with the early version of SP2, though the issues it created were eventualy fixed, sort of ironic that something created to suposedly fix problems ended up greating a lot more, at least for a while.

Such is life when one company is allowed to monopolise the world market :nope:

[fatty]

If you have been keeping up with your Windows Updates this service pack will probably not be of any use to you at all.

Spot on as I insure I keep up to date with the down loads. SP3 sounds for those who don't keep up to date.

Same here, I probably won't bother with it until next format unless the changelog gets a little more impressive at release. But when I do format next, it will save lots of clicks and reboots by being able to download all the updates since SP2 in one package. It's a good thing.

[JSLTIGER]

I waited to get SP2 because of all the bugs associated with it until they finally phased out SP1 last year. I'll probably do the same with SP3 if there are major bugs reported.

[CptSimFreak]

Is this Vista in disguise?
'carnivor'
That made me LOL.

M$ realized that no one wants to buy VISTA, so they secretly made XP turn into Vista by a patch that is bigger than all of past OSes combined.

and I was just trying to be funny. Who knew it would come true... from Slashdot
jBubba writes "Windows XP SP3 build 3205 is the first official & authorized release of the next Windows XP service pack; and has been made available to testers as a part of the Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista SP1 beta program. NeoSmart Technologies has the run-down on the included 1,073 patches/hotfixes (http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/windows-xp-sp3-beta-build-3205-released-analysis-included/) including security updates. Contrary to popular belief, Windows XP SP3 does ship with new features/components, most of which have been backported from Windows Vista. Some included features: 'New Windows Product Activation model: no need to enter product key during setup. Network Access Protection modules and policies have been brought to XP after being one of the more-well-received features in Windows Vista. New Microsoft Kernel Mode Cryptographic Module - the Windows XP SP3 kernel now includes an entire module that provides easy access to multiple cryptographic algorithms and is available for use in kernel-mode drivers and services. New "Black Hole Router" detection - Windows XP SP3 can detect and protect against rogue routers that are discarding data.'"