Re: window xp service pack 3

kookieman added these comments in the current discussion du jour
....

Unless you call DX10 (used only by few games and differences
seen only with highest end graphics cards) and Aero (personal
perference but no usability added imo) great steps, I don't
think XP is outdated.. MS really should face reality and offer
both products (Vista and XP) side by side for all
manufacturers once SP3 and SP1 are out. At least till Windows
7 is out (which is supposedly good). The best MS product in
the past few years imo was Office 2007.. it's awesome

I didn's say that XP was outdated or obsolete, I said MS believes
it is obsolete, and they do. I personally agree with you. It is
very, very stable and does what I want it to while not doing
anything weird, which is why I am so conservative. Now, lest
anyone think I have feet of clay and am not open to new ideas, I
will go to Vista upon my next custom PC build. But, and this is
important, the fast processors, motherboards, video cards, etc.
are still evolving and are quite pricey, apps to fully support it
all are still evolving, and Vista needs to mature some, at least
to SP1, perhaps longer until any/all problems, driver
availability, etc. are resolved. At one time, I was both a
programmer and a PC hobbyist, but since about 1995, I switched to
viewing a PC as a tool to do useful work, so XP does that for me
right now but I can see that the future is either Vista or Linux.

Have a great week, Kookie!

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Colin Barnhorst added these comments in the current
discussion du jour ...

SP3 seems to improve performance (those are the TechBeta
testers' reports) and networking is better. I like it
better than SP2 for those reasons. You'll probably pick up
5% to 10% in performance in some tasks. Depends on what you
do.

First mention I've seen of a real benefit. Thanks. I am
surprised, though, that MS would spend time on what they
believe is an obsolete O/S trying to speed it up.

--
HP, aka Jerry

"Surely you jest - and don't call me Shirley!" - from the
movie "Airplane!"






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HP, aka Jerry

"Surely you jest - and don't call me Shirley!" - from the movie
"Airplane!"
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