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to: John Beamish
from: Doug Bryce
date: 2006-11-04 03:40:58
subject: Re: XP SP3 delayed (indefinitely?)

From: doug.bryce{at}sympatico.ca (Doug Bryce)

Harrumph!!   I'll have you know I'm still here   - but mostly
lurking.   Been busy at work.

Doug

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:40:01 -0500, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

>Yeah, but Gene, Ellen, Doug Bryce, alan Cairns and JohnO are still AWOL
>
>On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:20:59 -0500, Geo  wrote:
>
>> Wow, first I see Tony I, now srgnt shultz is back? Did the rest of the
>> internet suddenly get boring or something? 
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Jeff Shultz" 
wrote in message
>> news:pan.2006.11.03.05.06.08.35442{at}master.shultzinfosystems.com...
>>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:27:17 -0400, Mike N. wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>> http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/10/microsoft_delays_windowx_
xp_se.html
>>> >
>>> > "Microsoft quietly let it be known this week that it
plans yet again
>>> to
>>> > delay the release of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP users, this time
>>> > until some point in the first half of 2008."
>>> >
>>> >    The march for MS to push XP into irrelevancy begins. 
Just like the
>>> >    lack
>>> > of SP5 for W2K.
>>>
>>> I just updated a customer machine to SP2 and beyond... after SP2 the
>>> first
>>> update was 62 updates for 95mb. Which was larger than the SP2 download
>>> for
>>> that box.
>>>
>>> Some of it may have been for Office though. There were 15 further Office
>>> XP patches after that massive download.
>>
>>
>

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