Get Windows XP SP1!!!
 

i don't like it as i don't think it likes my serial number ;)

Guys, you may wish to review this info before getting the SP1 :
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Microsoft has delivered the first Service Pack update for Microsoft Windows XP to manufacturers, where it will be put on CDs and sent to PC vendors and premiere Microsoft customers in the next few days.

The update is expected to give end users more control over applications that launch by default on PCs, as well as more-advanced wireless connectivity. Users are expected to be able to download it from Microsoft's Web site by September 9. It will also be available for purchase on a CD for $9.95, says Charmaine Gravning, product manager with Microsoft's Windows division.

The package is especially notable because it will introduce changes to the operating system that bring Microsoft into compliance with the proposed antitrust settlement. For example, users will be able to manually set the default "middleware" applications that open when Windows XP machines boot up.

Microsoft has built two new tools into the Start menu to help it comply with the proposed settlement deal. One is a function that allows users to add and remove their Microsoft middleware applications. The other is a menu designed to allow users to "set program access and defaults" that specify which middleware applications open by default. For example, instead of launching Internet Explorer to view a Web page, the user could set the default to launch the Netscape browser; or the user could launch RealPlayer instead of the Windows Media Player to play back audio or video files.
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Rumor is that Microsoft is going to attempt to shut down the XP pirates who use the XP Professional edition with SP1, this new feature is included. Rumor has it that the way it will work is it will report it's unique IP to MS upon installation, to ensure that the number of installations doesn't exceed the corporate license.

Actually SS i'm quite happy with my 98 install. Also everytime you update XP after SP1 it'll report your Serial Number and if you have a newly leaked key it'll block you from further updates. And let's face it, with the gaping security holes in Windows you need all the patches you can get.

umm... its not a rumour anymore.... and never really was....

the 2 corporate leaked keys which most of the world is using are blocked in the SP, but there is a ISO of winxp + sp1 which lets you use the key is already out, also there will be new leaked keys, but theres lots of security measures in there iw ould rather not have running ;)

gotta sneak some spies into microsoft
steal more keys

hehehehehee

MUahahahahahahaahah

MUAAAAAAAAAAAAhahahahahahaha

*clears throat*

sorry for my evil behaviors

i actualy like win98se better than winxp
but win2k is still my choice from what microsoft makes

otherwise, Red Hat Linux all the way!!

No spies needed. :P

http://www.tweaktown.com/document.ph...=guide&dId=350


Worked for me.


:wavey:

well spies are good for everything

even take some spy shots of bill gate's wig
lol

ill wait a couple of weeks first... if i bother to install it at all

i like winxp over the rest of win 9x, never actually installed win2k before but for me windows is my home desktop os, i will have suse8 installed as my linux desktop, then hopefully ill only go into win for gaming ;)

for my firewall/server ill have debian 3