Windows XP SP3 goes Vista-ish
Contains Vista material
By Nick Farrell
<http://www.theinquirer.net/articles/flameAuthor/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/08/windows-xp-sp3-tested>:
Monday, 08 October 2007, 8:40 AM
*THE* next service pack for Windows XP contains bits and pieces from Vista.
According to NeoSmart Technologies <http://neosmart.net/blog/>, which is
among those who have received the first version of Windows XP SP3 build
3205 as part of the Windows Server 2008/Windows Vista SP1 beta program,
SP3 has more than 1,073 patches/hotfixes including security updates.
Among these are a few things that have been backported from Vista
including the new Windows Product Activation model, Network Access
Protection modules and policies.
There is also the new Kernel Mode Cryptographic Module so that the
kernel now includes an entire module has access to multiple
cryptographic algorithms and is available for use in kernel-mode drivers
and services. It also has the " Black Hole Router" detection so that
Windows XP SP3 can detect and protect against rogue routers that are
discarding data.
Looks like XP is becoming a much better alternative to Vista, again. ยต
Bryan Seitz wrote:
I downgraded to XP w/ SP3 today and when I try to drag a file from
my network mount ( samba , always worked fine even in vista ) I get:
http://bsd-unix.net/seitz/xp_problem.jpg
Any ideas on a fix? I'd love to be able to use my fileserver again :)
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:24:29AM -0400, Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 04:23 PM 05/10/2007, Joe User wrote:
None of my vendors are offering it, laptops with XP are unheard of...
maybe I need to look around some more... Thanx T
And if you buy a laptop with Vista Business or Vista Ultimate, you can
downgrade to Pro legally.
s/downgrade/upgrade
There, fixed!
Christopher Fisk
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