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Microsoft delays Windows XP Service Pack 3 again
Posted by Spy December 5, 2006 12:51 PM with 6 comment(s)
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Microsoft quietly let it be known this week that it plans yet again to delay the release of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP users, this time until some point in the first half of 2008. At the beginning of 2006, I wrote that Microsoft was delaying SP3 until the latter half of 2007 in order to concentrate on development work for Windows Vista, the long-promised next new version of its flagship operating system. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had earlier said that SP3 would ship prior to the release of Vista.
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HTAT said:

Delay by 3-4 months?

 

Elmo,
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December 5, 2006 11:18 PM
 

gisabun said:

Last i heard it was delayed until around January 2008.

Already there are 250+ security and non-security fixes, plus IE, WMP, DirectX, DotNetFM and others. That's a lot of updates since the last service pack.

Maybe at least a security roll-up? They did it for Windows 2000 post service pack 4.

 

 

December 6, 2006 12:42 AM
 

mtg said:

The way I see it there are too many updates to download. Microsoft needs to stop pumping new features into service packs. They need to make the service packs just about updates and fixes. They should save the new features for feature packs like Server 2003 R2.
December 6, 2006 2:06 AM
 

noel-usr56 said:

i wouldnt be surprised if sp3 is the last service pack for windows xp
any chance of ie7 and media player 11 being included in xp sp3?  it's not out of the realm of possibilities.  I kinda like an "all-in-one" SP.
December 6, 2006 4:29 AM
 

Andrewft65 said:

This sounds like Window 2000 SP5, that never happened.

XP needs a slipstreamable post SP2 update at the very least.

It is tiresome patching newly installed machines, or having to continually update ghost images. As for installing an update server, my company doesn't employ the staff for such luxuries

Come on Microsoft, splosh a little dosh on an XP post SP2 rollup!
December 6, 2006 9:43 AM
 

roirraW "edor" ehT said:

I have two URLs for anyone who doesn't already know and is sad every time they install Windows XP or 2003 either x86 or x64 and normally performing all the Windows/Microsoft Updates afterwards:

www.ryanvm.net for trustworthy integrateable post-SP2 update packs (the author's own is just for XP x86 but there are sections in the forum where others develope XP x64 and 2003 x86 and x64 post-SP1 packs, which are less important now since MS at least has a SP2 RC for those.

www.driverpacks.net for integrateable updated drivers in several logical categories and subdivisions.  Again, the regular site just offers x86 drivers, although they work with Windows 2000, XP and 2003 all the same, but I believe their forum points to other, albeit less updated drivers for XP and 2003 x64.

It took me a long time to be desperate enough to take the plunge and use these, but I've been using them for the past six months and I'll never go back to the old way of installing Windows.  It's great having ALL RAID drivers, even for Promise controllers that are nearly seven years old, integrated onto the XP disc, never having to press F6 again...except for Vista for now.  :)

Highly recommended.

Just in case anyone wonders, the correct order for integration using these (RyanVM and DriverPacks each have their own integrator although some have and you can in theory use nLite for all) plus using nLite is:

1.  RyanVM post-SP2 updates, including (not from RVM himself) Windows Media Player 11

2.  nLite (for removing things, and/or integrating IE7)

3.  DriverPacks

RVM by all means is the lengthiest part of the integrating because it recompresses the driver.cab.  Probably a good 15 minutes.  nLite can be the next to the longest depending on what you do, but I believe integrating IE7 makes it take slightly longer but still not as long as RVM.  Probably 10 minutes.  Integrating the DriverPacks typically takes less than 2 minutes.

December 7, 2006 6:20 AM

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