No XP Service Pack 3 until at least 2007

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1. January 19, 2006 6:21 AM
   Mictlantecuhtli said:
   [b]Originally posted by PanicX:[/b][quote]Um sure you do. The naming is just different. Instead of calling windows NT5 what it is, they renamed it Windows 2000 and sold it to you. Same for XP, which is basically NT6. I don't have a great understanding of Vista, but its likely its just NT7. The Service Packs are for the most part just fixes.[/quote]To be more precise, XP = NT5.1, Server 2003 = NT5.2, Vista will be NT6.0.
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2. January 19, 2006 10:40 AM
   fury said:
   This doesn't really affect people all that much if the service pack is just going to be a single download of all the security updates that are in Windows Update up to that point. Unless you're a dialup user and have not updated at all since SP2 (or even worse...since you installed Windows).I have broadband and I reinstall Windows just about every other month.. the downloads aren't that bad to me. Even if I was using dialup and kept reasonably up to date every time a new update came out it wouldn't be so bad. It just doesn't seem all that bad to me that they're taking their sweet time.
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3. January 19, 2006 5:10 PM
   Cy6erpuke said:
   Good thing, good thing. Just look at how many of us had to replace the flawed SP2 firewall with something worth while. SP3 would just contain a whole lot of things we need to switch off to get things working again. I have some clients who even refuse the hotfixes! I'm telling you, I don't need to convince them.
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4. January 23, 2006 5:34 PM
   JMag034 said:
   Won't everyone be over on 64 bit already?
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