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From: Andy Siegel on 16 Apr 2010 12:43 Does anyone know if there are plans for XP SP4? I just installed XP SP3 and ran the Windows Updates and needed 72 updates (on the first pass). I know we should go to Win7, but we have a lot of XP out there. Thank you,
From: smlunatick on 16 Apr 2010 13:02 On Apr 16, 5:43 pm, Andy Siegel <AndySie...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Does anyone know if there are plans for XP SP4? I just installed XP SP3 and > ran the Windows Updates and needed 72 updates (on the first pass). I know we > should go to Win7, but we have a lot of XP out there. > > Thank you, It has been widely shown on the Internet that Microsoft is never going to ever have a SP4. SP3 is the last service pack "grouping" of changes ever. Microsoft is no longer officially selling Windows XP. The XP you are still able to buy is the stores are the remaining "stocks" of XP.
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 16 Apr 2010 14:34 On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:43:01 -0700, Andy Siegel <AndySiegel(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Does anyone know if there are plans for XP SP4? I just installed XP SP3 and > ran the Windows Updates and needed 72 updates (on the first pass). I know we > should go to Win7, but we have a lot of XP out there. There have been two new versions of Windows since XP (Vista and 7), and Microsoft no longer sells XP. XP is now obsolescent; it's highly unlikely that there will be any more service packs for it. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 16 Apr 2010 15:05 None, zip, nada. Andy Siegel wrote: > Does anyone know if there are plans for XP SP4? I just installed XP SP3 > and > ran the Windows Updates and needed 72 updates (on the first pass). I know > we should go to Win7, but we have a lot of XP out there. > > Thank you,
From: VanguardLH on 17 Apr 2010 21:49
Andy Siegel wrote: > Does anyone know if there are plans for XP SP4? I just installed XP SP3 and > ran the Windows Updates and needed 72 updates (on the first pass). I know we > should go to Win7, but we have a lot of XP out there. > > Thank you, Microsoft doesn't produce service packs for unsupported products. http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3223 Mainstream support ended 3 days ago. It's dead. All you get now are functional updates that are either considered part of security updates or can be applied to code branches for their newer and supported versions; however, those won't get rolled into a service pack. When you went to Windows Update, did you first apply just SP-3 (which rolls together SP-1, SP-2, and post SP-2 patches)? First install the latest service pack, then go check for later updates. |