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Windows XP SP3 RC Ready for Download

OSNews reports that Microsoft has put the release candidate (RC) of Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Windows XP up on their download site for you to grab. The entire download weighs in at 580mb while the Windows Update version that will be available when the release goes final, will be roughly 70mb. Not too shabby for [...]

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Windows Vista SP1, Positive Impressions

Well the tides are starting to turn… it seems hot on the heels of the public SP1 RC announcement, ZDNet is reporting some good things about SP1, including some nice network performance improvements (they claim 300% increase):

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Windows Vista SP1 RC Tommorow

Well it looks like the public RC of the Windows Vista SP1 release is going to drop tomorrow (for TechNet and MDSN subscribers). In addition to that, you can grab a whitepaper describing all the changes here. If you don’t want to skim the PDF, here’s the list: Security Provides security software vendors a more secure way [...]

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