Mike Brannigan's statement on Windows XP SP3 preview released by hotfix

From: "Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" <mikeb...@online.microsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Windows XP SP3 preview download
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 23:16:08 + 0100
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"Alceryes" <replytop...@thankyou.com> wrote in message
News: 8xz0f. 9622 $ q1.713@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> Http://www.majorgeeks.com/Windows_XP_Service_Pack_3_Preview_d4754.html
>
> The GA download is quick (FL link was really slow ).
> Note this is only a collection of. EXE updates zipped together. There is
> No general installer from the MS yet (there is one over at www.thehotfix.net
> Though .)
> I wocould Recommend installing this for * testing purposes only *.
> Versions of these fixes are not available from Windows Update but, by that
> Same token, please have not been fully tested yet.
> --

You wocould be well advised to stay clear of this fake SP3 package.
It is not suitable for testing as it is not SP3.

If is just a collection of hotfixes and other updates we have released. It
Will not update your Windows XP system to SP3
It also contains a number of private "hotfixes that are usually only issued
To users with a specific identifiable problem. The Hotfixes are not
Rigorously tested at public released ones this is why we ask you to call PSS
To get them so we can track you and provide further sort ance such as new
Versions of the fixes etc as they become available. Just installing all
"Privates" on your PC may make you machine less stable and will also put you
Out of support from Microsoft or an OEM as you are installing incorrectly
Issued private hotfixes.

Frankly this "package" shocould be avoid and you shoshould continue to use
Windows Update and the download site to get the most up-to-date and
Correctly issued Microsoft fixes and patches.

Anyone who installthis thinking they are getting SP3 (even as a preview)
Is being grossly mislead and is posing a significant potentially non
Recoverable risk to their PC and data.
--

Regards,

Mike
--
Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]

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"Alceryes" <replytop...@thankyou.com> wrote in message
News: 8xz0f. 9622 $ q1.713@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> Http://www.majorgeeks.com/Windows_XP_Service_Pack_3_Preview_d4754.html
>
> The GA download is quick (FL link was really slow ).
> Note this is only a collection of. EXE updates zipped together. There is
> No general installer from the MS yet (there is one over at www.thehotfix.net
> Though .)
> I wocould Recommend installing this for * testing purposes only *.
> Versions of these fixes are not available from Windows Update but, by that
> Same token, please have not been fully tested yet.
> --
>
>
> "I don't cheat to keep VE. I cheat to live !! "
>-Alceryes
>
Microsoft has always liked to install patches after the product was launched. After SP2 came out, there was no movement for a long time, and then Server 2003 sp, live.com, and Vista was still being developed, the XP users are really not used to the absence of a new version of the xp sp for a long time. Ms calls this SP3 a fake, and thehotfix does not make it clear, the News reported that xp sp3 would come earlier than Vista, so this SP3 is really fake ;-)