I feel exactly the opposite. I was hanging onto vista for SP1 hoping for major improvements... when nothing came I formatted and installed XP. Plus now I get SP3!
If you installed XP that recently you should have waited until a slipstreamed disc made itself available. A truly fresh SP3 experience.
PS: Vista SP1 (via a clean install) is awesome. I don't think enough people are installing it slipstreamed. Patching with something as big as SP1 is never going to be as tight as going from sqiuare 1.
C'mon Microsoft for the love of all that's holy release SP3 - my grandparents who refuse to get a new computer (and had me take back the one I bought for them) demand that I reinstall XP on a PIII 550mHz + 256 megs ram. It will take me the entire damn day to patch that thing.
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SP3... Well, won't need do download that now... SP1 for Vista is now sweet and I don't hate it anymore.
Slow news day...
agreed
I feel exactly the opposite. I was hanging onto vista for SP1 hoping for major improvements... when nothing came I formatted and installed XP. Plus now I get SP3!
@Allen
If you installed XP that recently you should have waited until a slipstreamed disc made itself available. A truly fresh SP3 experience.
PS: Vista SP1 (via a clean install) is awesome. I don't think enough people are installing it slipstreamed. Patching with something as big as SP1 is never going to be as tight as going from sqiuare 1.
C'mon Microsoft for the love of all that's holy release SP3 - my grandparents who refuse to get a new computer (and had me take back the one I bought for them) demand that I reinstall XP on a PIII 550mHz + 256 megs ram. It will take me the entire damn day to patch that thing.
@Chebwa
I'm installing slipstreamed its called Windows Server 2008......far better then Vista.
@Tomahawk
You know that Vista SP1 updates the kernel to the exact same code as Server 2008, right?
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