With Service Pack 2 installed, Window XP has proven to be a notably durable and reasonably secure version of the operating system.
The August 2004 release of SP2 dramatically upgraded the security of the original XP, adding the Windows Firewall and Windows Defender, along with easily configurable options to block or allow specific kinds of traffic into your system.
Since SP2 came out, Microsoft has continued to supply fixes and enhancements via Windows (and Microsoft) Updates.
For the most part, Windows XP Service Pack 3 simply rolls all the fixes and upgrades into a single convenient package
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check the new features and the windows genuine thing (2nd page of article)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2200774,00.asp
personally i have been updatin my laptop winxp regulary
maybe the ppl with non-windows genuine stuff ra7 yistafido
my first thought .. is :(... i have sp3 now to deal with .. i wonder about changes in deployement strategy.. how is that gonna affect it
damn.. should i be looking for InstallShield 13 now ?