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Won’t XP SP3 impact the adoption of Windows Vista and Vista SP1?

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Won’t XP SP3 impact the adoption of Windows Vista and Vista SP1?

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It is in fact possible that the concomitant availability of XP SP3 and Vista SP1 convince old guard XP users to stick to what they know best and not move to the latest Windows operating system. After all XP has reached a high level of comfort, it still runs great on older machines and XP SP3 might just do the trick for those that are looking to ride the operating system for all it’s got until the end of 2009/early 2010 when Windows 7 is planned for launch. “Windows Vista provides the most advanced security and management capability, but for PCs that cannot be upgraded to Windows Vista right now, Windows XP SP3 ensures these PCs have all available updates and allows these PCs to leverage some new Windows Server 2008 capabilities, such as Network Access Protection (NAP)”, Microsoft explained its move.