Windows XP SP3 delayed to 2008

[solarfox]

Your are just plain wrong. Here's a very in-depth article on what new features Vista will provide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost

Read it, understand it and then claim there's nothing new.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say Vista offers nothing new (a) that I actually want, and (b) that I'm not already able to do -- and probably do better -- with 3rd-party applications.

As developers begin to make use of these features, you will eventually need to move to Vista

You are assuming that I will actually need any of the programs which use these new features.

[oldandinthe way]

Don;t expect to use Vista until I buy a new machine which has Vista on it. At such a time I will not be running mission-critical apps on it.

We have machines running WFW, WinNT 4.0 and XP. Unless an application upgrade is required the OS is not upgraded.

Needless to say the older the OS, the more limited the connectivity we allow. WFW system is kept offline to avoid virus risks.

We do have a few toys still running Win95 but we skipped 95, 98, ME in application deployment having gone the NT3.x, NT4.0 route. We skipped Win2000 also. There is an excellent chance we will skip Vista.

[DereX888]

WFW Sounds kinda like "WTF" (is that?! )
I spend once whole weekend trying to set it up on some ancient "find" I got for $10 at flea market... I never got it past installation floppies, maybe before I try again one day, I should PM somebody here for tips...

[SatStorm]

What upsets me, is that M$ told us W2K users a year before that there won't be another Service Pack, because w2K is more than 5 years old and they don't support OS after 5 years.
But, they gonna have a SP3 7 years after the XP release for the WinXP users. Now, if they do so, why not the same for us, the w2K users?
It's the small things that make users turn against M$.

[DereX888]

You'll get Rollup Update 2 soon... if it isn't service pack with different label, then I dont know what is it

But hey, I hear ya.
XP is only 1 year 'younger' than 2K, and it IS same OS with extra gigabyte of fancy GUI after all


BTW: I thought you left dvdrhelp some time ago, so (if Im not mistaken) its nice to see you back

[kcgixflix]

I voted, "I'll move to Vista when I can run all my apps and they fix the WGA issues." Wow... I love this forum! Obviously 95,98 and ME are dead. Win2k is great, but XP offers more security and efficiency even though it seems slower and succeptable... lol. Vista will be a good product once all the major bugs are gone. The improvement from Vista Beta to the Release Codes (currently RC2) have been quite good. WGA is still a major problem and Vista users will have no flexibility on multiple installs. SP1 for Vista is already scheduled and it's an interesting story: SP1 is the server equilivent to Vista (identified as Longhorn). SP1 will actually modify the kernel for Vista users upon it's release as well as adding security. This was done because MS supposedly couldn't make their own release dates. It's sad... as consumers, we continuously get hosed... no one OS is the end all ultimate OS, but that's what keeps us protected against monopolies. I run XP, OSX and Linux. Each have pros and cons, but I look forward to the potential that Vista "might" provide.

[SatStorm]

- off topic -
@DereX888: I'm quite active, but only on specific forum sections and on the "capture card" list administration! I visit this place almost every day! But you won't see me post on the off topic section, for the well known reasons
It's always nice to see old forum friends posting around!

[DereX888]

I voted, "I'll move to Vista when I can run all my apps and they fix the WGA issues." Wow... I love this forum! Obviously 95,98 and ME are dead. Win2k is great, but XP offers more security and efficiency even though it seems slower and succeptable.

I dont know where you get such BS info from (I hope not from MS press releases LOL), but if you check around for independent security & efficiency related infos, you'll find that
1- plain Win2K without any service packs applied has LESS security holes than WinXP with service pack 2,
and
2 - same software on a same hardware (same machine) with Win2K is up to 15% faster than on WinXP


little quick googling around wouldn't hurt you before posting bullsh*t...:

Vulnerability Report: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (as of November 2006)
Unpatched: 20 of 138 known security holes

Vulnerability Report: Microsoft Windows XP Professional (as of November 2006)
Unpatched: 29 of 163 known security holes

[jimmalenko]

Work-wise I don't think we'll touch Vista for at least 4-5 years .... we have had enough fun getting our software to work on Win2K and XP machines over the past 4 years that it's not something I need to think about for a while yet.

Personally I won't look at Vista until SP1. As it happens, I'm quite happy with XP at the moment anyway.