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In mid-April 2008, Microsoft published an Advisory informing Windows users of a new vulnerability affecting its Windows server and client platforms, including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, but also Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003. In the past six months, the Redmond company ... |
10 October 2008
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Windows XP SP3 RTM Build 5512 was made available for download at the end of April 2008, and five months later, Microsoft is releasing a new wave of the third and final service pack for XP. However, while the initial release of SP3 was designed to integrate with the 32-bit versions of the desktop client, the October r... |
8 October 2008
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Time is running out for Office 2003 Service Pack 2. Microsoft is gearing up to pull the plug on the precursor of Office 2003 SP3. As of the coming month, the Redmond company will no longer deliver support for Service Pack 2 for Office 2003. Even though the Microsoft Support Lifecycle can span to as much as two years,... |
24 September 2008
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Microsoft revealed that there are scenarios in which the software installation process on Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows XP SP2 would fail, causing the entire operating system to become unresponsive. The Redmond giant has identified no specific software products which fail to integrate with Windows XP; howeve... |
19 September 2008
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Microsoft is aligning all the Service Pack 3 releases for the various Windows XP versions it continues to support in terms of what the refreshes will bring. In this context, having made available the SP3 gold bits for the Windows XP client, the Redmond giant has moved forward and is now cooking the third service pack... |
10 September 2008
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Despite being different releases associated with the evolution of the Windows client, Windows XP and Windows Vista share not only common elements and components through their architecture, starting with the kernel, but also flaws in the source code. In this context, the Service Pack 1 and respectively Service Pa... |
5 September 2008
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Without a doubt Service Pack 3 is the apex in the evolution of Windows XP, since it is the last release of its kind for the precursor of Windows Vista. Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich recently indicated that perfection is outside the reach of any kernel or operating system for that matter. And the proble... |
27 August 2008
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Microsoft has adapted the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification tool to the third and last service pack for Windows XP. Designed to inform the end users that their operating system has failed to pass the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation process, the WGA Notifications component is now set up to integrate seamless... |
26 August 2008
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Windows XP, now with Service Pack 3, Windows 7 and even the open source Linux do not provide sufficient reasons to avoid upgrading to Windows Vista SP1. According to market analyst company Forrester, in the corporate environments, Vista adoption is up no less than 75%, taking into consideration data from the fourth q... |
25 August 2008
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The end of June 2008 brought with it the availability cut off date for Windows XP, now with Service Pack 3, via the retail and OEM channels. Microsoft made it clear that discontinuing XP Direct OEM and Retail Licenses would have absolutely no impact on the support lifecycle of the operating system, and the same is va... |
25 August 2008
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Microsoft's decision to have both Windows XP and Windows Vista available concomitantly on the market was a move that inherently backfired against the company. Comparisons involving the two Windows operating system versions favored Vista very little, being, quite to the contrary, beneficial for XP instead. Howeve... |
22 August 2008
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The fact that Service Pack 3 for Windows XP has never been at the top of Microsoft's priorities list is reverberating to additional platforms on top of the Windows client. In this context, while Windows XP Embedded SP3 is being virtually ignored, its successor, Windows Embedded Standard 2009, is offering testers... |
19 August 2008
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Microsoft is debuting the second round for Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, almost four months since the service pack was released to manufacturing for the XP client at the end of April 2008. Released to the general users at the start of May, Windows XP SP3 is yet again moving to center stage, but in a dimmer limelight... |
13 August 2008
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Microsoft has warned end users that performing Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 upgrades from copies of XP SP2 and Vista RTM, respectively, that have Onekey Recovery 5.0 installed will cause the operating systems to display a black screen following reboot. According to the Redmond company, t... |
8 August 2008
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At the start of July, Kevin Turner, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer, revealed that the Redmond company considers Windows Vista an apex of security, and in this sense, superior to Mac OS X, Linux, the whole of open source and even Windows XP. Yet this perspective is not sufficient to take either Vista or XP out of t... |
8 August 2008
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Deploying Service Pack 3 directly on top of a fresh installation of Windows XP Service Pack 2 will kill all subsequent updates from Microsoft's servers. The Redmond giant warned that integrating SP3 into the operating system straight after performing a new installation of XP SP2 via Windows Update will result in... |
4 August 2008
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Just for the sake of going back in time, Microsoft is still serving the Release Candidate development milestones of Windows XP Service Pack 3. Both XP SP3 RC1 and XP SP3 RC2 continue to be available for download from the Redmond company's Windows Update servers, even though the actual pages in the Download Cente... |
18 July 2008
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 does play nice with Intel Core 2 Duo processors, with a small exception, according to Microsoft. Apparently, the Win32_Processor class of XP SP3 manages to label Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs incorrectly, this also being valid for machines running XP with Service Pack 2 installed. In this context, i... |
17 July 2008
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Microsoft is still far from wrapping up with the third and final service pack for Windows XP, just the 32-bit version of Windows Vista's predecessor. And, at the same time, XP SP3 failed to have anything close to a smooth ride, although it did manage to veer away from the speed bumps hit by Windows Vista Service... |
16 July 2008
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The third and last service pack for the 32-bit version of Windows XP has debuted on the path to automatic distribution today, July 10, 2008. Initially, Microsoft was shy about pinpointing the actual deadline for XP SP3's availability through Automatic Updates, and only referenced an abstract "early summer" in or... |
10 July 2008
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This is it; the Windows XP Service Pack 3 grand finale is just around the corner. While the operating system is no longer for sale through retail and OEM channels as of June 30, 2008, Microsoft continues to be committed to offering support for the platform. With Mainstream Support planned to last until 2009, and Exte... |
8 July 2008
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With Service Pack 1, Microsoft provided fixes for the vast majority of the issues that have now became associated by default with Windows Vista RTM. But softening the rough edges of Vista is not enough, as there are scenarios in which the problems reported by end users cannot be blamed specifically on the latest Wind... |
3 July 2008
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With Windows XP but four days away from the June 30 end-of-sales date, various scenarios are depicting the operating system as already dead. But XP is far from being expired, and this is why Microsoft has not been shy about talking about the future of Windows Vista's successor, as irreverent as this might seem. ... |
26 June 2008
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It's the end of an era for Microsoft. Not the end of Windows XP, but the end of the XP era. In the context in which after June 30, 2009, Microsoft will no longer permit its retail partners and original equipment manufacturers to sell the predecessor of Windows Vista, the company has not steered clear of addressi... |
21 June 2008
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Service Pack 3, available for less than two months to the general public, introduced some network connectivity issues for the successor of Windows Vista. Microsoft informed that Windows XP SP3 copies can fail to access the network when certain Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol settings are in place. Specifically, i... |
20 June 2008
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Free, pre-activated copies of Windows XP Service Pack 2 are available for download straight from Microsoft. The free variants of XP SP2 have been made available together with a version of Windows Vista RTM, also up for grabs at no charge. The Redmond company is simply marking a new chapter of what has become a tradit... |
20 June 2008
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Service Pack 2 were left wide open to attacks via a vulnerability in the operating system's Bluetooth stack, even though Microsoft released a Critical patch addressing the issue on June 10, 2008. MS08-030 was designed to patch a critical security flaw in the Bluetooth stack affectin... |
20 June 2008
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Make no mistake about it, June 30, 2008 is the beginning of the end for Windows XP, even with Service Pack 3 available for two months now, since May 6. Microsoft confirmed that the end of this month will be synonymous with the availability cut-off date through the retail and OEM channels, although there have been cus... |
13 June 2008
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At the end of March 2008, on the heels of Windows Vista SP1's availability to the general public via Windows Update and the Download Center (starting on March 18), Microsoft introduced free support for the service pack. At that time, the promise was that Windows XP Service Pack 3 would receive the same treatment... |
13 June 2008
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The introduction of the third and final service pack for Windows XP failed to be as streamlined as possible. Microsoft provided a list of issues related to XP SP3 in the official documentation for the release, but the notes deal only with the major issues. There are additional problems, documented via Knowledge Base ... |
6 June 2008
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Even with Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available and with Windows 7 planned for release by the end of 2009 (according to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer), Windows XP is still far from taking its due place in the Windows cemetery. The June 30, 2008 Direct OEM and Retail License Availability (end date) ... |
5 June 2008
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Although a router or a switch should be the standard when it comes down to sharing a single Internet connection between multiple computers, some users insist on putting the Connection Sharing capabilities of Windows to good use. The recently made available Windows XP SP3 has some issues when it comes down to ensuring... |
30 May 2008
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At the end of April, just as Microsoft had released Windows XP SP3 to manufacturing, and with Windows Vista SP1 RTM'd since February, the face-off between the two operating systems simply went to the next stage. Now, Microsoft has hardly been a stranger to comparisons involving its Windows clients available on t... |
24 May 2008
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The fact of the matter is that Microsoft has wrapped up with Windows XP Service Pack 3, ever since it reached RTM stage on April 21. After being released to manufacturing, on May 6, 2008, XP SP3 RTM Build 5512 was made available for download to the general public via Windows Update and the Download Center. The third ... |
23 May 2008
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The advent of Windows XP Service Pack 3 has brought with it the proverbial "beginning of the end" for its predecessor, Service Pack 2. As it is customary with Microsoft, the availability of a service pack triggers the start of expiration support for the previous release of a specific product. This is a rule that gove... |
19 May 2008
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Technically, Microsoft has yet to wrap things up with the distribution of Windows XP Service Pack 3, and is now gearing up for the final stage designed to serve the operating system through Automatic Updates. But, other than pushing the service pack to all XP users with AU enabled, the Redmond company has wrapped up ... |
17 May 2008
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Microsoft is accompanying the final version of Windows XP SP3 with additional resources aimed to complement the release. Case in point: the Symbols Package for Windows XP Service Pack 3, containing items made available in order to provide developers with the tools necessary to perform debugging actions on the third a... |
17 May 2008
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Service Pack 3 is merely a stage in the evolution of Windows XP and by no means a fresh start for the operating system. Illustrative of this situation are the problems dating all the way back to SP2, released at the end of 2004, that have survived into the third and final service pack for XP. And the perfect example ... |
16 May 2008
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Network Access Protection (NAP) is one of the few features that were actually added to Windows XP SP3. However, the management of the policy enforcement platform present by default in both Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is not as streamlined on XP SP3 as it is in the latest server and client operating systems.... |
13 May 2008
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Although Microsoft claims that both Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 play well with Windows XP Service pack 3 RTM, the fact of the matter is that there are a few subtleties that cause the browsers to become permanent components of the operating system, rather than offering the uninstall option. The ... |
13 May 2008
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Downloads of Windows XP SP3 are still live and they're going to remain this way, despite widespread problems. The final service pack for XP was offered to the general public on May 6, 2008. Accompanying the release was a consistent volume of documentation, complete with resources describing various issues that s... |
12 May 2008
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Although Microsoft has hammered away at Windows XP SP3 in order to provide an experience as seamless as possible for end users when deploying the service pack, failed installation scenarios are still a valid possibility. In the eventuality of a failed installation of XP SP3 RTM, there are some troubleshooting steps e... |
9 May 2008
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Since mid-2007, Microsoft has entered Service Pack-mode, as it debuted work on Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 and Office 2007 SP1, as well as Office 2003 SP3. A year later, the Redmond company's Service Pack Fiesta is still continuing even after the general availability of XP SP3 and Vista SP1. With the servi... |
9 May 2008
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Microsoft has wrapped up Windows XP SP3 since April 21, 2008, when the Redmond company released the service pack to manufacturing. However, only on May 6 did the documentation associated with the service pack go live. In this context, Knowledge Base article 936929 contains a list complete with links to all the resour... |
7 May 2008
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The third and last service pack for Windows XP is barely out the door and Microsoft has rushed to put the past behind it. As of May 6, 2008 the Redmond company has officially killed Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 Refresh. XP SP3 RC2 Refresh represented the last development milestone for the service pac... |
7 May 2008
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The Windows XP Service Pack 3 availability saga is one step closer to the finish line. At over a week since it was initially planned to ship to the general public, Service Pack 3 is now available for download to all 32-bit XP users. Of course that torrent and warez websites offered XP SP3 RTM Build 5512 almost immedi... |
7 May 2008
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Nothing spells out the hunger for the third and final service pack of Windows XP as the volume of leaked copies of SP3 RTM that are available for download from torrent and warez websites. It was the case with the initial standalone English version of XP SP3, to which were added the remaining language variants, almost... |
6 May 2008
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Microsoft released Windows XP SP3 to manufacturing on April 21, 2008, and by all means the company took its due time with the service pack: a couple of additional months to develop it on top of what it needed for Windows Vista. But even with the extra development time, XP SP3 RTM Build 5512 should is not refined. Far... |
6 May 2008
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Whatever you do with Windows XP SP3, do not attempt to slipstream the service pack on Windows Vista. Despite the fact that SP3 RTM Build 5512 is provided as a standalone download, it can be integrated into earlier versions of the operating system. The process is called slipstreaming. While Microsoft performs such act... |
5 May 2008
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The pseudo-release of Windows XP Service Pack 3, because Microsoft's game of now you see it, now you don't, cannot be called otherwise, has managed to produce some rather interesting side-effects. In this context, one of the collateral victims of the introduction of XP SP3 RTM Build 5512 is not Windows Vist... |
5 May 2008
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