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Title: Xp Sp3
Post by: SteffK on November 26, 2007, 09:21:42 AM: XP's Service Pack 3 release announced

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9048658
Title: Xp Sp3
Post by: DiabloTX on November 26, 2007, 09:22:59 AM: Good news. I don't plan on upgrading to Vista, oh,...ever.
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Post by: SteffK on November 26, 2007, 09:25:36 AM: Quote
Originally posted by DiabloTX
Good news. I don't plan on upgrading to Vista, oh,...ever.

Agreed - Apparently SP3 runs Office 2007 about 10% quicker than SP2 - So an added speed boost also - Not good for Vista (Thank God)
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Post by: DiabloTX on November 26, 2007, 09:29:49 AM: My almost 5 year old AMD 2100+ PC imploded last night while I was trying to do an upgrade on it. At least if I get a new OEM system I still have to option of downgrading the Vista back to XP. But more than likely I'll just build me another PC using my existing XP license.
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Post by: LePaul on November 27, 2007, 04:10:53 PM: Thanks for the link

Im noticing on Dell's website that many PCs let you choose XP.
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Post by: Gunslinger on November 27, 2007, 04:13:50 PM: Quote
Originally posted by LePaul
Thanks for the link

Im noticing on Dell's website that many PCs let you choose XP.

Geesh,

It's too bad that Mrs. Gunslinger and I were fighting when she bought her laptop from dell. She opted for vista and didn't pay the $90 for the upgraded ram. It was slow as crap till I put XP back on there.
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Post by: Shuffler on November 27, 2007, 04:37:24 PM: I still see no reason to go to vista. I have however helped several folks UPGRADE from vista to XP and they are all the more happier for it.
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Post by: Mr No Name on November 27, 2007, 04:42:46 PM: Lets see what it contains first... hopefully not a bunch of DRM garbage
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Post by: Vulcan on November 27, 2007, 04:47:30 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Mr No Name
Lets see what it contains first... hopefully not a bunch of DRM garbage

Yeah, I'm thinking about rolling back to XP SP1, SP2 is a bit of a nightmare (especially around networking stuff).
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Post by: Boroda on November 27, 2007, 05:37:57 PM: Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), the update scheduled to be released next year, runs Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite 10% faster than XP SP2, a performance testing software developer reported Friday.

Are they nuts or what?!

Claiming that stupid text processor or a spreadsheet that ran smoothly on a 286 is amazingly TEN ****ING PERCENT FASTER!?

On a modern "numbers-grinder" that is like 100+ times faster then a late-80s mainframe!?

My institute abandoned Convex supercomputers that were illegally smugged here in 1988 three years ago. Modern PCs are faster, and we've got some big clusters. And now they bloody bastards boast 10% performance increase in an application that is ****ing IDLE 99% of the time it's running!...

Now I need another beer to clam down...

P.S.: what I really hate is people preparing 500-pages documents in MS Word.

@$%^$%#@!!!!.
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Post by: Vulcan on November 27, 2007, 05:43:04 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Boroda
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), the update scheduled to be released next year, runs Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite 10% faster than XP SP2, a performance testing software developer reported Friday.

Are they nuts or what?!

Claiming that stupid text processor or a spreadsheet that ran smoothly on a 286 is amazingly TEN ****ING PERCENT FASTER!?

I'd like to see you run Office 2007 on a 286.

What version of office is the USSR using boroda? Office 1?
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Post by: Boroda on November 27, 2007, 06:07:40 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Vulcan
I'd like to see you run Office 2007 on a 286.

What version of office is the USSR using boroda? Office 1?

99% of the public needs Wordpad instead of Word. Our institute also uses some chemical add-on to Word that can be run with Word-6 IIRC. They are that one percent that isn't satisfied with Wordpad.

I seriously try to persuade my clients from using Office 2007.

Back in USSR we had our own FREE Cyrillic text processors and spreadsheets. Some of this projects are still alive, but who cares if they can buy a pirated MS Office with all bells, whistles and a paper-clip banging at the display glass from inside?!

I still see fossils from 1980s who bring me 5.25" floppys with their scientific revelations typed in Chi-Writer. This guys deserve all possible respect. Unlike stupids who buy a new computer because they feel uncomfortable with their previous P4/2.5GHz/1Gb RAM/120Gb HDD and /*drumroll*/ 19" LCD Ferrari display that they run in 640x480 resolution because the letters are big enough to see...!!! @$^$%#!!!! Now they type their e-mails with one finger on Core-2 Duo/4Gb/500Gb/22" wide screen at the same pathetic 640x480. And write complains on me because I "switch them off from Entorned" because they type e-mail addresses in browser address string...