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JogaBonito1502
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What's so different about this SP3? I have the SP2. Is it worth the download?
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SP3 is a roll up of all the Updates (~110 or so that you have to d/load after installing SP2) and apparently there has been some tweaking on the kernel that gives a performance boost of around 5% according to people who trialled the previous releases.
I can't comment for sure on any of these from first hand experience as my work ISP is dog slow and I've only d/loaded 75% of SP3 so far
RTM was released on the 21st to the best of my knowledge, MSDN subscribers were supposed to get it at the same time, looks like someone with a MSDN subscription has done the good thing and hosted it on Geeks.
Thanks to whomever you are.
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Ok, can you PM me like in a week if this thread is not alive telling me whether it's worth the download or not? I trust your judgment.
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Sure mate, but I'd say it is definitely worth getting. If you wait a while it will probably be on the cover cd's of the popular PC magazines soon anyway just like SP2 was.
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Shouldn't Windows do an automatic update to this?
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Does anyone know when they will release it to the public? I don't mind waiting if it's not like 6 months or something crazy. Well, unless it sucks, then I could care less...
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This is released to public lol, this is off of MSDN.
