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to: Frank Haber
from: John Cuccia
date: 2007-05-30 15:05:00
subject: Re: XPSP3?

From: John Cuccia 

On Wed, 30 May 2007 14:00:54 -0400, "Frank Haber"
 wrote:

>A podcast I heard recently mentioned, casually, that Microsoft, also casually,
>had announced that there will be an SP3 for XP this fall, announced roughly
>when Server08 goes gold.  The stated reason is to bring XP (paraphrased) "in
>line with the management features of Vista as a client."
>
>Being a cynic, sceptical of Greeks bearing gifts, this means to me:
>
>1. Something will happen to make Win2k less useful in a domain, if not pure
>agony to manage.  Probably both.
>
>2. XP will now be as annoying as Vista on the Authent and Activation fronts.
>
>3. I'd better put the Faraday cage around the bedroom again.

Great.  I bet SBS 2003/Server 2003  will need the Vista patch to accomodate
upgraded XP clients.

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