I have XP Pro, SP2. Any point to upgrading to SP3, when
support will be available only till 4/09? Why upgrade in
view of all the problems some have with SP3?
Whenever everything new comes out, there are always some people with
problems. But in fact, the enormous majority of those who have
upgraded to SP3 have had no problems at all with it,
If you're reading about problems *here*, this where people come with
their problems, not with their successes. You get a very distorted
view of what's going on in the real world here; as someone once said,
"hang around a transmission shop and you will think that all cars have
transmission problems."
Most problems, by far, that people report here--whether or not they
are SP3-related--have nothing to do with defects in the software. They
result from people's ignorance, from bad or inadequate hardware, from
old drivers, from viruses, from spyware, and so on. And except for
very rare situations, they always get a fix for their problems, and in
most cases, that fix is a very simple one to implement.
But read here first:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950717