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Re: [News] Another Major Delay: XP SP3 in 2008

  • Subject: Re: [News] Another Major Delay: XP SP3 in 2008
  • From: Peter Hayes <not_in_use@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 20 Oct 2006 09:34:08 GMT
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: <Zzzzz>
  • References: <1161285422.129044.59760@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>
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  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1172969
In <1161285422.129044.59760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Roy Schestowitz 
wrote:
> No Windows XP Service Pack 3 Until... 2008!
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Microsoft previously announced that the next service pack
>| for its Windows XP operating system would be coming out in
>| mid-2007. The date has now slipped back more than a year,
>| and is now due in the first quarter of 2008.
> `----
> 
> http://www.techsmessage.com/2006/10/19/no-xp-service-pack-3-until-2008/
> 
> Proof that the customer does not matter, as well as an attempt
> to force an upgrade? No Linux distributer will descend to such
> poor pattern of delays.

Within a few months only Vista will be available and within a couple of 
years the support plug will be pulled on XP.

Microsoft seem to be going through a very aggresive phase at the moment. 
Could they be testing the legal waters?

-- 

Peter

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