Windows XP SP3

Eh. It’s good, I suppose, and I’m sure its much-vaunted performance is there, but this is very much a service pack dealing with O/S guts, and not a massive feature pack a la SP2. I can’t immediately tell any difference.

In other news, Hardy Heron is released! And its software is already out of date.

2 Comments by Ben / April 29, 2008 / Posted in: general

Tagged: Microsoft, personal, software, technology, Windows

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Conor
/ Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Hypertext. Use it.

Also, the window bar in your screenshot totally makes it look like you’re running Windows in a VM. Way more attractive than the XP Fisher-Price default scheme.

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Ben
/ Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Is that a call for link to the service pack?

I have never, ever used Luna, the default XP theme. What you see there is a Windows port of the new “Gummy” Clearlooks.

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