The end of April?   Must they continue to taunt me...

For "Joe Q"  average user, the delay is no big deal.  However for those us in an Enterprise setting who have to patch newly built machines, this will save a lot of time instead of having to build all these patches into a new build.

Hopefully, this has been worth the wait.  I also read where a bug in the SP has already been patched.

Honestly, I cannot see Microsoft going to the expense fo cerating discs for this SP.  Two things come to mind, first the cost and secondly the life expectancy of the OS.

Is there no DSL service in your area?  MOst of the low end DSL packages are as cheap or cheper than any dialup service.

"MOst of the low end DSL packages are as cheap or cheper than any dialup service"

True, but there are many parts of the country (at least in Canada), even within well populated municipalities, where DSL or Cable service is simply not available. Rural areas in particular suffer from this unavailability.

XPSP3 is a true Service Pack and will not have the major GUI updates that SP2 did.  There will be some minor "under the hood" tweaking but I fail to see why anyone should be concerned with driver issues for this release.

This is really nothing more than a rollup of all security patches since SP2.

Hi

Is Dell ready for Windows XP service pack 3? and have drivers update to.

From Chris

My computer
Dell Dimension 1100
Microsoft Windows XP Home SP 2
512 MB of Ram
Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 256MB
Intel Celeron CPU 2.53GHz
Dell E196FP
HDD WDC WD800BB-75JCO 80GB C:
HDD Samsung SV2042H 20GB F:
TSSTcorp CDRWDVD TS-H492C D:
LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-851S E:
Linksys Wireless-G WUSB54GS With SpeedBooster
Logitech Cordless Desktop EX 90
Logitech Cordless Click Plus Rechargeable Optical Mouse
Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

My Security Software
Avanquest SystemSuite 8 Professional
Windows Defender