Comments on: Microsoft expands XP SP3 testing

A test version of the forthcoming update to Windows XP is expanded to include MSDN and TechNet subscribers. The service pack is largely a collection of previously issued bug fixes and security updates.

[palex9]

The fish stinks from the head. Gates, fire the top brass now, before...

...its too late... it took your people HOW LONG to come up with
SP3? after they spent years working on VISTA? and we all know
what a disappointment that was...

[dhavleak]

Anger management, dude..

"The fish stinks from the head"??
You need some counseling man..

[timber2005]

The time has come

The time has come for you to realize some things. SP2 changes no less than FIVE FREAKING MILLION LINES OF CODE. FULL REWRITES. SP3 is going to wrap the legacy of XP into its finale. Combining every security fix, every enhancement, everyTHING into one package, and a new installation media. Do you really think Microsoft just says "well we can put five guys on this and get it out next week"? Its not slipstreaming of updates (which is really slow no mattter the method), its recompiling XP from the source with all the fixes built in. All these people who have long forgotten XP source and moved on to Vista for the past SIX YEARS are now looking back and taking shot number 3 to get it perfect for it to last everyone until they move.
So if you can't complemet Microsoft on the achievement, at least thank the testers who risk data and taxes just to make sure the OS you may use has one less bug.

[johnericanderson]

Dude, lose the hate.

Gates is retired, ie: "Not the head."

You will have to find someone new to hate.

[FutureGuy]

its stinks??

MS last quarter was the best since 1999. Get yourself an education. MS has always been releasing SPs for old OS, for free. You might be an Mac so a "free" upgrade to an old OS might come strange to you. Oh MS also release "free" upgrades to old Zune to give them realy every new feature of new, that also might surpise you.

[FutureGuy]

this was @palex9

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[Commander_Spock]

"The OS2 petition"!

"It is known that OS/2 isn't well supported by companies that make software or by individual developers, and OS/2 faces a high possibility of being replaced and/or withdrawn from the market. Hence this petition to IBM so the much-loved OS/2 Technology can be freely distributed and developed around the world. We understand that making OS/2 Open source will be beneficial for the IBM customers as well as for IBM..."

http://www.os2world.com/petition

"MS has always been releasing SPs for old OS..."; also, "free" upgrade to an old OS might come strange to you..."; then, "Ever Onward IBM"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9oh3gqOEKU

[Penguinisto]

Best since 1999?

Well, Gee... while MSFT is growing at a puny single-digit rate, its competition is growing by orders of magnitude larger.

And don't kid yourself - the one and only reason MSFT is bothering with a service pack (which is almost all bug-fixes, and very little in the way of new features) is because there are so many people who have seen Vista and decided to pass it up -- including (and especially) businesses.

If it weren't for the masses taking one look at Vista and saying "blecch" (or some variation thereof), XP SP3 wouldn't have even garnered a footnote in the tech press, much like Windows NT service packs 5 and 6 (followed quickly by SP 6a) got no splashy press.

/P

[Commander_Spock]

The OS/2 "SPECIAL FORCES" A Mission:

"The Open Source Petition letter to IBM"

http://www.os2world.com/content/view/15847/1/

To retake its place in the banking industry to address "sub-prime crunch"!

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,83884,00.html

[Commander_Spock]

"On A Mission"; and, "Getting Ready"...

... to land on REDMOND!

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/

[J_Satch]

And the troop comes marching in!

OS/2, an army of one, literally...

:)

[Commander_Spock]

"Dinosaur sightings: Lotus Symphony 3"!

"New regional engineering accreditation system"

http://www.iadb.org/NEWS/articledetail.cfm?artid=4171&language=En

But for the trees and forest (Windows) that we cannot see the Dinosaur that is the new IBM Lotus Symphony.

http://www.news.com/2300-11386_3-6218615-1.html?tag=ss