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No XP Service Pack 3 for You Today - 5/6/2008 1:39:47 PM

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In a move a little like Lucy pulling the ball out of the path of Charlie Brown's lunging foot at the last moment, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) withdrew plans to make Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) publicly available today.

The reason? The company ran into compatibility issues with Windows XP customers who also run Microsoft's Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS), a software package for running retail stores.

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RE: No XP Service Pack 3 for You Today - 5/6/2008 5:17:31 PM

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It's still being deployed via Windows Update (I just downloaded/installed it on an XP machine 15 minutes ago)...

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RE: No XP Service Pack 3 for You Today - 5/7/2008 9:51:50 AM

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Yeah, I'm not sure what they're talking about...you can get SP3 everywhere...
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsxp/0a5b9b10-17e3-40d9-8d3c-0077c953a761.aspx

If you ask me, it sounds more like ITpoint has an agenda to try and promote their website or try to show Microsoft in a poor light, as opposed to just trying to contribute to the community.

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RE: No XP Service Pack 3 for You Today - 5/7/2008 10:36:13 AM

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Actually, it was postponed for the exact reason ITpoint had pointed out on Apr 30 (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/30/xp_sp3_delayed/), but they have since made it available on May 6 (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/06/windows_xp_sp3_updater_release/).

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RE: No XP Service Pack 3 for You Today - 5/7/2008 10:38:58 AM

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I saw the update on my PC yesterday and declined it. I then rang MS to order a CD/DVD version of the code so that I wouldn't have to download it. The guy there told me that the SP was still in Beta and therefore a DVD version hadn't been released yet. Surely, they wouldn't allow Beta copies to be automatically applied to millions of PCs around the world that are configured for auto-updates?
It all sounds typically confused to me...

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