For Pity's Sake, MS, GET ON WITH IT!

[jimmuh]

Look, I've been waiting for an official download link for the network
installation version of SP3 for quite a long blasted time. I've been a
Technet Plus subscriber for years, and I can't believe subscribers have to
wait for this download until EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE PLANET CAN GET IT!

Guess what, MS -- I think subscribers here can probably figure out that they
shouldn't install SP3 on systems that run your point of sale software. Give
me the service pack! I am a sysadmin, and I need the network installation
version so I can prepare an integrated installation package and get some new
installations done!

GET ON WITH IT!

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

SP3 for Windows XP is available now for TechNet & MSDN subscribers.
To find the download, please see:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3229849&SiteID=17

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast

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:

Look, I've been waiting for an official download link for the network
installation version of SP3 for quite a long blasted time. I've been a
Technet Plus subscriber for years, and I can't believe subscribers have to
wait for this download until EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE PLANET CAN GET IT!

Guess what, MS -- I think subscribers here can probably figure out that they
shouldn't install SP3 on systems that run your point of sale software. Give
me the service pack! I am a sysadmin, and I need the network installation
version so I can prepare an integrated installation package and get some new
installations done!

GET ON WITH IT!

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Technet and MSDN subscribers have had the download available for a couple of
weeks. Look under the MSDN Subscriptions Page, and it's under Most Popular
Downloads.

: Look, I've been waiting for an official download link for the network
: installation version of SP3 for quite a long blasted time. I've been a
: Technet Plus subscriber for years, and I can't believe subscribers have to
: wait for this download until EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE PLANET CAN GET IT!
:
: Guess what, MS -- I think subscribers here can probably figure out that
they
: shouldn't install SP3 on systems that run your point of sale software.
Give
: me the service pack! I am a sysadmin, and I need the network installation
: version so I can prepare an integrated installation package and get some
new
: installations done!
:
: GET ON WITH IT!

 

[Mark]

That guy must have his head in the sand. I'm not even a subscriber and I
knew that.

 

[Ridge Runner]

Moronicus

 

[Bob I]

I think the correct naming convention would be stupidus moronicus.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Just for interest sake, has your world come to an end because you were not
able to see your download link? I hope not because there is no evidence that
SP3 will end all sufferings on this planet and that we'll have peace in the
middle east and our boys and girls will come back home!!

By the way SP3 has been out since Monday 28/04/2008. Just look for a link
which I and others have provided on MS website.

Hope this cheers you up!!

 

[Ridge Runner]

Yup............
reckon so.

I think the correct naming convention would be stupidus moronicus.

 

[Ridge Runner]

I thought they were extinct like the Dodo

I think the correct naming convention would be stupidus moronicus.

 

[Robert Pendell]

Look, I've been waiting for an official download link for the network
installation version of SP3 for quite a long blasted time. I've been a
Technet Plus subscriber for years, and I can't believe subscribers have to
wait for this download until EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE PLANET CAN GET IT!

Guess what, MS -- I think subscribers here can probably figure out that they
shouldn't install SP3 on systems that run your point of sale software. Give
me the service pack! I am a sysadmin, and I need the network installation
version so I can prepare an integrated installation package and get some new
installations done!

GET ON WITH IT!

The download has been available for at least since April 23rd to Technet
and MSDN subscribers. It is an iso image that is retrieved but you
will find the offline/network installer inside that iso.

--
Robert Pendell
(e-mail address removed)

"A perfect world is one of chaos."

Thawte Web of Trust Notary
CAcert Assurer

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

He merely "googley challenged."

I think the correct naming convention would be stupidus moronicus.

 

[Ridge Runner]

He done go looksee in de wrong places fer sure.

He merely "googley challenged."

 

[Anteaus]

Yeah, I've been known to scream at computers, but usually for reasons that
are at least slightly justifiable, like inscrutable messages, screens of
various shades of blue, etc. But an sp a few days late?

I'd hate to think how this guy would respond to the dreaded "An unknown
error has occured" message. ;-)

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Look, I've been waiting for an official download link for the network
installation version of SP3 for quite a long blasted time. I've been a
Technet Plus subscriber for years, and I can't believe subscribers have to
wait for this download until EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE PLANET CAN GET IT!

Guess what, MS -- I think subscribers here can probably figure out that they
shouldn't install SP3 on systems that run your point of sale software. Give
me the service pack! I am a sysadmin, and I need the network installation
version so I can prepare an integrated installation package and get some new
installations done!

GET ON WITH IT!

You apparently think you're addressing Microsoft, so let me make it
very clear: this isn't Microsoft here, and you're simply wasting your
(figurative) breath complaining to us. Nobody here can help you.

This is a peer support newsgroup. We are all just Windows XP users
here, helping each other if and when we can. We are not Microsoft
employees (not even those of us with "Microsoft MVP" behind our names;
that's an honorary title for having provided consistently helpful
advice) except for an occasional employee who posts here unofficially
on his own time.

If you want to complain to Microsoft, you'll need to contact them
directly.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Who wants it before it is ready anyway? Just to have it? NOT.

 

[Unknown]

What you really need is a psychologist.

 

[Unknown]

Excuse my mental lapse. I really meant Psychiatrist. Anyone who rants and
raves like that needs to have his
head examined.

 

[Bob I]

Umm, it was the "sysadmin" part is what scared me.

 

[jimmuh]

Hey, Mr. head-not-in-the-sand, read the OP. Did you see the word "network" in
there? That's the version of the service pack that's used for slipstreaming.
I've had the CD since the hour it was posted. That's not the version I really
need the most.

That guy must have his head in the sand. I'm not even a subscriber and I
knew that.

Technet and MSDN subscribers have had the download available for a couple
of
weeks. Look under the MSDN Subscriptions Page, and it's under Most
Popular
Downloads.

: Look, I've been waiting for an official download link for the network
: installation version of SP3 for quite a long blasted time. I've been a
: Technet Plus subscriber for years, and I can't believe subscribers have
to
: wait for this download until EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE PLANET CAN GET IT!
:
: Guess what, MS -- I think subscribers here can probably figure out that
they
: shouldn't install SP3 on systems that run your point of sale software.
Give
: me the service pack! I am a sysadmin, and I need the network
installation
: version so I can prepare an integrated installation package and get some
new
: installations done!
:
: GET ON WITH IT!

 

[jimmuh]

Thank you, Robert. I really appreciate the help. Yours is the useful post in
response to my admittedly dimwitted tirade -- because you told my what I
should have learned right away, that the network / offline install executable
archive was contained within the ISO I already had in my hands.

I'm a "sysadmin" but not the type that everyone here is thinking about. I
manage production control systems in a printing firm, and I'm not a Windows
guy. So -- mea culpa for not knowing what, now that you've pointed it out to
me, should have been obvious.

To everybody who pointed out my ignorance, etc., it might interest you to
know that I contacted TechNet support TWICE about this, and no one there
could point out the fact that the network/offline installer was within the
ISO that I had already talked with them about. I told them exactly what I
needed it for, and no one could help me.

I'm learning as I go along. Sorry for the rant. I hope everyone enjoys the
laugh at my expense.

I don't mind -- as long as you laugh a little at TechNet / Microsoft support
while you're doing it.

And, thank you again, Robert, for actually being helpful to a doofus.