Microsoft resumes Windows XP SP3 distribution

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Microsoft ‘officially’ announces XP SP3 public test build

Even though Microsoft began pushing out a public test build of Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 the week of December 10, it wasn’t until December 18 that the company would acknowledge officially the existence of that build. On the 18th, Microsoft made the XP SP 3 Release Candidate (RC) build available for download from the Microsoft Download site. Microsoft allowed the same, near-final build to be released last week on several public file sharing sites. When I asked Microsoft December 11 whether the public RC of XP SP3 was available, the company declined to comment. Yesterday, Microsoft sent me the following statement: “Today, Windows XP SP3 RC was made available to the public via the Microsoft Download Center. [lien] [EN]

Windows XP SP3 Being Manufactured, Available for Release on April 29 [Microsoft]

Window's XP Service Pack 3 has gone to manufacture, according to its release manager, who posted the news on Microsoft's forums. And April 29 is the date that we'll be able to get our unwashed paws on it, via the web. Full text is after the jump. Today we are happy to announce that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has released to manufacturing (RTM). Windows XP SP3 bits are now working their way through our manufacturing channels to be available to OEM and Enterprise customers. We are also in the final stages of preparing for release to the web (i.e. you!) on April 29th, via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. Online documentation for Windows XP SP3, such as Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and the Microsoft TechNet Windows XP TechCenter. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft outlines what’s coming in Windows Mobile 7, 8

Microsoft isn’t offering up any dates or final product names, but it is breaking with Windows Mobile tradition and is talking about future features. It’s not hard to see why Microsoft’s Windows Mobile team is uncharacteristically willing to share its roadmap. The Apple iPhone has all the buzz and, according to at least one market researcher, more of the the Web-browsing market share than Windows Mobile does. Here’s what Microsoft has shown/told a select handful of bloggers, journalists and other sundry “influentials.” Coming early next year is Windows Mobile 6.1, a minor update to the current Windows Mobile platform that includes a number of interface enhancements. Next on the horizon is Windows Mobile 7, which will add zooming. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft softens limits on its Windows Web Server

When Microsoft starts shipping Windows Web Server 2008 real soon now, the licensing terms and conditions it will require of its customers will be different than they were for prior versions of the company’s Web-server version of the product. Customers will be able to use any type of database software, with no limit on the number of users, with the Web-server SKU based on Windows Server 2008, according to Microsoft. CRN first reported the change in the database-licensing terms for Windows Web Server 2008. With the Windows Server 2003 Web Edition product, Microsoft customers were not allowed to use the product with “non-enterprise database engine software, such as Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine, licensed to support not more than 25 users at one time. [lien] [EN]

Windows XP SP3 available April 29th

Microsoft has announced that Windows XP SP3 has been released to manufacturing and will be released for download on April 29th as a standalone installer. It will be available in early Summer as an automatic update. Windows XP SP3 includes all previo... [lien] [EN]

Windows XP SP3 update

Last week I posted about April 29th was the date when Windows XP SP3 would be available, well it seems it has been delayed for a while due to a... '...compatibility issue between Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) and both Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista Service Pack1...' Read the full announcement on the Technet Forums Rob Technorati Tags: Windows XP SP3, Service pack 3 [lien] [EN]

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed [Windows XP]

It's April 29, and Microsoft has to make the unfortunate decision of delaying Windows XP SP3 due to compatibility issues between it and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, something none of you should be familiar with unless you work in retail. If you don't, the service pack has been unofficially available for a couple days now and you can go ahead and install it, but the final final version won't be ready for a little bit. [PCMag] [lien] [EN]

The first entry : Is my smart card incompatible with Windows XP SP3?

The first entry : Is my smart card incompatible with Windows XP SP3? After creating the blog account and sitting on it for last few days, finally got to publish this first entry I got a new laptop and decided to play around with Windows XP SP3, so hooked up to the network and installed it. Install went smooth and punched in http://update.microsoft.com to get the latest updates. Everything done and laptop up and running, nothing surprising. Same look and feel and same great power of Windows XP. The very first thing I noticed when I plugged in my Bluetooth dongle. It was recognized and drivers installed and within a few of minutes my phone was hooked up! The same dongle required me to install the drivers from the disk and use the clumsy application that came along with it. [lien] [EN]

He likes it: Linux guy gives Windows Home Server a (qualified) thumbs up

It seems every time I do a Windows Home Server (WHS) post, the comments end up evolving/devolving into a debate over whether Linux or Windows is a better home-server platform. I decided to ask a Linux aficionado, Jason Perlow, to provide his take on WHS. Here’s Perlow’s WHS review: For the last 10 years, I’ve been pretty much exclusively reviewing and writing about open-source software. But in my previous lifetime, I was a Windows geek and I spent considerable time at Fortune 100 companies integrating various iterations of Windows Server into their respective environments. I guess like Mr. Spock on Star Trek, I need to return to the home planet on ZDNet to spawn about Windows every decade or so. While many would call me a dyed-in-the-wool Linux freak. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 to Manufacturing

Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 to Manufacturing Hi All, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released to manufacturing today and will start being available to customers in March, starting with Microsoft Volume Licensing customers. Windows Server 2008 was also released to manufacturing today and will be available for purchase to new customers on March 1. Microsoft Volume Licensing customers with active Microsoft Software Assurance coverage or an Enterprise Agreement will be able to download the server software toward the end of February as part of the joint Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 “Heroes Happen Here” launch event. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/default. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft and Samba finally come to terms over Windows protocols

After years of public disagreement over ensuring interoperability between their respective software, Microsoft and Samba have come to terms. And not surprisingly, each vendor is offering quite a different spin on the licensing agreement they unveiled on December 20. It took an intermediary, the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF) — a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center — to hand off the Microsoft protocol documentation that Samba said it needed to make its Unix/Linux file/print sharing products work properly with Windows. According to a press release issued December 20, Samba is paying Microsoft a one-time sum of 10,000 Euros, after which the PFIF will make available to the Samba Team, under non-disclosure, “the documentation needed for implementation of all of the workgroup server protocols covered by the European Union decision. [lien] [EN]

More Microsoft predictions from around the Web

Earlier this week, I weighed in with my 10 Microsoft predictions for 2008. A few other Microsoft watchers have done the same. Among some of the other interesting prognostications out there: Steven Bink: Don’t forget about the Windows Server 2008-based bundles that are coming in the new year. Bink mentions Cougar (Windows Small Business Serer 2008); Centro (Windows Essential Business Server 2008; Windows Storage Server 2008; and Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2008. WindowsConnected: Betas of Windows Server 2008 SP1 and Windows Vista SP2, predicts WindowsConnected’s Josh Phillips. (Me? I’ll be surprised if there are even private betas of either of these next year, especially given the pace at which Microsoft is developing/testing/rolling out Vista SP1 and XP SP3. [lien] [EN]

Opera: Acid or no, its Microsoft antitrust complaint goes forward

Now that Microsoft has passed the Acid2 Browser test, is Opera Software satisfied? If dropping its antitrust complaint filed last week with the European Commission is the measure, the answer is no. I asked Opera whether Microsoft’s announcement on December 19 that an internal Internet Explorer 8 build has passed the Acid2 test meant a change in its complaint. Opera asked the European courts to require Microsoft to change its practice of bundling IE with Windows, as well as to compel Microsoft to make IE comply with accepted Web standards. An Opera spokesman delivered the company’s response: “We congratulate Microsoft on the screenshots showing IE8 passing the ACID2 test. We appreciate the effort of Microsoft’s developers in this achievement. [lien] [EN]

Internal Microsoft IE 8 build passes the Acid standards test

A week after Opera Software filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft that focused, in part, on Microsoft’s falure to make Internet Explorer (IE) standards-compliant, Microsoft has gone on record stating IE 8 will include support for key Web standards. Microsoft verified last week that an internal test build of IE 8 passed the Acid2 Browser Test, according to Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of IE Development. Hachamovitch noted the milestone in a blog post to the IE Team blog on December 19. Microsoft also posted a video to its Channel 9 Web site explaining the finer points for developers interested in the Acid2 details. Acid2 is a test page, maintained by the independent Web Standards Project group, that was written to help browser vendors ensure support for Web standards in their products. [lien] [EN]

What’s on Microsoft’s agenda for 2008?

It’s the end of the year, which means it’s pundit prognostication time again. Here are my 10 predictions about what I think we’ll see in Microsoft land in 2008. (I could have done a lot more than 10, given I’m finishing up a book on Microsoft’s future, Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era. If you want more, you’ll have to wait until this spring.) For this Top 10 list, I didn’t go for the low-hanging fruit and predict that Service Pack 3 will give Windows XP a new lease on life… or that the Internet Explorer (IE) team will field a first test build of IE 8. Too easy! Instead, I’m sticking my neck out with 10 less obvious predictions for the new year, ranging from Beta 1 of Office 14, to a surprise. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft’s $300 million ‘consumer product blitz’ inches closer

What kinds of products will Microsoft be pushing when it launches its new $200 million to $300 million consumer-product ad campaign in early 2008? AdAge has reported that Microsoft has narrowed its search for an agency to handle creative for the forthcoming “consumer-products blitz” to two: MDC Partners’ Crispin Porter & Bogusky and Publicis Groupe’s Fallon. No doubt, Xboxes and Zunes will be on the roster. Windows Home Server (which is currently plagued by a serious and still unresolved file-corruption bug) could be on the list, too. Windows Live services and Windows Vista could stand for some serious consumer advertising help. Other likely candidates for Microsoft’s consumer ad campaign? I’d bet the Surface tabletop technology — which Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will show off during his Consumer Electronics Show keynote in early January — will be part of the campaign. [lien] [EN]

What does Microsoft’s IPTV reorg have to do with ‘Fiji’?

I’ve been thinking about Microsoft’s quiet reorg, via which the company unified the IPTV, Media Center and HD DVD initiatives into a single organization, known as the Microsoft Connected TV business group. Just munging these three teams together doesn’t necessarily mean a cohesive set of Microsoft TV products and services will suddenly emerge. As Microsoft Platform Strategy Advisor Harry Mower blogged: “This is a step in the right direction as long as we also begin to consolidate the underlying platforms and developer technologies. Today, if you want to build a media experiences that spans devices, you are forced to use a hodgepodge of languages, tools and standards. Until we (Microsoft) realize that we need to deliver one unified platform for multimedia development and consumption. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft to build an ‘Emacs.Net’ text editor

Developers are puzzling over recent clues blogged by a few Microsoft employees regarding a new “Emacs.Net” tool the company is building. Microsoft’s Connected Systems Division (the folks who developed the Windows Communication Framework, a k a “Indigo”)  is hiring developers  to build a product that team member Doug Purdy described as “Emacs.Net.” Purdy hinted that Microsoft will divulge its Emacs.Net product/strategy plans at the company’s Professional Developers Conference in late October 2008. Emacs is a text editor used primarily by the Unix community (though versions of Emacs that work on Windows systems already exist). Richard Stallman is credited as the father of Emacs, the name of which was derived from “Editing MACRoS.” “Emacs is a text editor where a lot of the functionality is written in Lisp. [lien] [EN]

Microsoft offers a Vista two-for deal

As 2007 rolls to a close, Microsoft isn’t letting up on its efforts to push Windows Vista. The latest promotion is aimed at subscribers Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) or TechNet who provided Microsoft with Vista testing feedback. “As we approach the one year anniversary of launching Windows Vista we want to remember you as one of the many people who downloaded and tested one of the Windows Vista Beta or Release Candidates through TechNet or MSDN. YOU were a significant contributor to the development of Windows Vista. Your participation was extremely valuable to Microsoft, and we would like to say, ‘Thank You!’” according to an e-mail message I received about the promotion at the end of December. Under terms of “The Ultimate Offer. [lien] [EN]