Microsoft will release Windows XP Services Pack (SP) 3 by way of its Automated Update (AU) company on Thursday July 10, company officials confirmed this week.The consumer team continues to be vague about when it planned to push the newest version of XP to users. “Early summer” and “sometime soon” were favorite comebacks when officials were asked for an AU timeframe for SP3.Customers who have automatic updates turned on but who don;t want XP SP3 to be downloaded to user desktops this week — for whatever reasons — need to deploy the Microsoft Services Pack blocker toolkit to delay pushed-delivery of SP3.While Microsoft will begin pushing SP3 tomorrow, not all people will receive it immediately,
Office 2007 Standard, as the organization will be staggering the rollout.Microsoft has postponed and temporarily halted the distribution of SP3 a couple of times this year because of compatibility and performance problems.Meanwhile,
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Cheap Windows 7, Microsoft;s newly launched Windows Vista Compatibility Center still is down for the count. Microsoft officially launched the new portal site designed to help Vista end users determine driver and application compatibilty status of products they want to deploy with Vista. The site was supposed to go live on Tuesday and,
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Office Pro Plus 2010, was still not operational.