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Migration to Windows Vista still Problematic for Microsoft

By Robert | October 25, 2007

Contrary to what we previously thought, Microsoft is keeping us informed on news about the Windows XP Service Pack 3 extension, or maybe the beta testers are actually doing this. Windows Vista did not prove to be such a huge success as previously envisioned and there is still a large number of people that want to continue utilizing Windows XP.

We have witnessed Microsoft offering XP downgrades for unhappy Vista buyers and recently after that event we also got to see an announcement that Microsoft will keep on selling XP until the 30^th of June 2008. Then we got to see a new version of Internet Explorer 7.0 for Windows XP that does not need product activation and Service Pack 3 Beta was launched for a small number of testers.

Service Pack comes with the 3205 label and is just 334.92 MB. Different reports have appeared concerning SP3 and we were happy to see that it features 1,073 patches and hotfixes. 114 of them are security related and many are also features available in Vista that are now included in the service pack and will run on Windows XP. Out of the Windows Vista applications included in SP3, the most talked about is the Network Access Protection Module together with a Kernel Mode Cryptographics Module and a Black Hole Router detection that can be very useful.

Microsoft Windows Vista migration did not go as planned for the company and this brought a need for the development of XP Service Pack 3 and the longer availability period. OEMs also still sell systems with XP as an installed operating system and the general feeling of the situation is that time still needs to pass until Vista will reach the level of popularity envisioned by Microsoft.

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