Vista - Windows XP SP3 Twice As Fast As Vista

Tue, 4 Dec 2007 08:15:04 -0000 from Gordon
<gbplinux@xxxxxx>:One reason is that it benchmarks nonexistent software against Vista.

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Wed, 5 Dec 2007 17:14:42 -0500 from Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown@xxxxxx>:Please disregard -- I see Gerry has posted an official link to SP3:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...lyID=68c48dad-
bc34-40be-8d85-6bb4f56f5110&DisplayLang=en

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/

Thu, 6 Dec 2007 08:23:58 -0000 from Gordon
<gbplinux@xxxxxx>:I deduced it because the latest SP shown in MS download center was
SP2. We've been hearing about SP3 for a long time, and it's always
been either vaporware or some hack's creation.

Then after posting I saw Gerry's link, so it appears part of
Microsoft's site has been updated and part has not -- or else SP3 has
been announced but isn't actually available for download.

As I said when I started a new thread, I was surprised there hadn't
been any discussion here.

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/

Bob I wrote:As one of those 60% ers, I did /not/ have a choice. My new portable came
pre-installed with Vista (no choice given) - and I refuse to pay more
money to a crooked organisation to have XP re-installed.

Now do you understand?

Bob I wrote:So, Bob, people should wait for Vista "SP2" before they waste any money
on the new OS. Perhaps by that time Vista will have gone the way of
Windows ME (consigned to the dusbin of software history)

Stan

My link was a preliminary announcement as to what is to be included in
SP3. It is a draft which may, or may not, be amended when they release
SP3. Copies of SP3 are being Beta tested at the present. Beta testing in
essence is checking for bugs. You may expect the release during the
period January to June 2008.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stan Brown wrote:

You could gone to another computer supplier!



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Gerry
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occam wrote:

Gordon

SP3 for Vista ?????????????????



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Gerry
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Gordon wrote:

> SP3 for Vista has been released as RC1 to official BETA testers only
> and they have their private newsgroups for discussions, that's why
> there's been no discussion about it here. Anyone discussing SP3 here
> is probably NOT an official MS Beta tester and so has got the pack
> "unofficially"....

You're gonna wait a awful long time for Vista SP3. By then, Windows Seven will be out, and we'll be BETA testing it's successor!

Gerry wrote:I hear all the comments - but /you/ do not live in Luxembourg. I have
trouble getting QWERTY (normal English) keyboard, and my options are not
the same as yours. Yes, I could have insisted on a DELL (instead of
Acer) etc - but I would still have had to pay more for the XP version
than the Vista.