On May 6th Microsoft finally released it’s long awaited Windows upgrades to Vista and XP. Microsoft had a initial plan to release them to the public in Mid April, but due to the critical bugs that were found just a week before release, the upgrades were halted.

But now both the upgrades are available on both Microsoft Download centre and on automatic updates.

SP3 of XP has quite relative advantages, it is more secure, because I have been trying SP3 beta, RC (release candidate 2) since the last year. And i have got less attacks on my PC. The speed of my windows functionality has increased. Even the 20% of illegal allocation of Internet speed by windows fro it’s own purposes has been removed.

More features of performance including performance in stability has been included, Remember that this is the last Sevice Pack to the legendary OS by Microsoft as Microsoft is set to cut off production of Windows XP, even though market vendors and consumers are shouting not to do so because Vista is still not in demand even after 1.3 years of release.

Well as for you those who are Windows Vista Users or soon to be also… get delighted as relatively more stable OS has evolved. Drivers are more in numbers, more security and compatibility to previous software’s released. But still the requirements of a much more powerful system is required.

Vista SP1 rolls up 551 bug fixes

Here’s the list:

75 Internet Explorer
41 Sleep/Hibernation & Power
Management
38 Storage

35 Hardware and Drivers
35 Networking 28 Desktop and Shell
25 Printing & Scanning Technologies
25 .NET Framework, Data Components, Development Tools
24 Setup, Deployment, Backup, and Activation
24 Windows Media Center
23 International/Localization
20 Computer Management, Administration, and Tools
19 Application Compatibility
19 Multimedia
16 Performance and Reliability
16 Start up/Shutdown
13 Time Zone/Daylight Saving Time
13 Windows Media Player and Related Technologies
12 Security
12 Remote Access, VPN
8 IIS and WebDAV issues
7 Wireless Networking
7 Offline Files
6 Windows Mail and Web-based Software
5 Windows Sidebar and SideShow
5 Windows Portable DevicesPersonally,

Not suprisinglyInternet Explorer at the top of the list, nor was I shocked to see how many separate issues addressed problems with sleep, hibernation, and power management.

Yes keeping in mind that many of you might have Not Genuine Winodws on you, so Microsoft has kept the upgrade free of validation checks so you can downoald the upgrades free from here.

Windows XP

Windows Vista

Please note that those of you who have HP, AMD based machines, please wait another week to install the updates as a rebooting problem is being resolved. Mind it that is not applicable to intel based machines. But only to whom who have HP machines in which AMD preocessors are present.

Well it is a speculation also that Office 2007 SP1 is to be available to masses via automatic updates on June 16 2008.

So upgarde and Enjoy….

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