Re: SP3 for XP
- From: Alias <iamalias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:56:31 +0100
Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On 16 Feb 2008 02:37:02 -0600, Plato <|@|.|> wrote:
Colin Barnhorst wrote:No, it means pre-release software as any of the online dictionaries willPC Mag only defines anything to what their advertisers say is allowed.
tell you. Even PC Magazine defines it as follows:
Probably very true.
But I'm with you; to me, whether something is technically an alpha
test version, beta, pre-release, release candidate, or anything other
that a released version doesn't matter. It hasn't been released yet,
and that's because Microsoft (or whichever vendor makes it) doesn't
yet consider it good enough to release. True, the later along the
series of test versions it is, the less likely you are to have
problems, but installing anything other than a released version is
foolhardy, unless you are someone who enjoys playing around with these
things, and also has a spare, non-production machine to run it, and
don't care if you lose everything on the machine.
My personal practice, especially with operating systems, is to avoid
anything that isn't a release version. I can wait.
No, you can't. You have Vista installed on your machine and it is most certainly not a "release version" but a BETA with the BETA testers actually *buying* the BETA and testing it for free for Microsoft. As far as I'm concerned, Vista won't really be ready to be released until at least SP2, just as XP wasn't really ready to be released until its SP2.
Alias
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