{"id":260,"date":"2008-05-30T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/05\/30\/a-look-at-windows-xp-service-pack-3-part-2-missing-vista.aspx"},"modified":"2008-05-30T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T07:38:00","slug":"a-look-at-windows-xp-service-pack-3-part-2-missing-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"A Look at Windows XP Service Pack 3 Part 2: Missing Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/xpsp3.asp\">Part 1<\/a> of my examination of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), I rhetorically asked whether XP was still &#8220;good enough&#8221; given the many advantages of its successor, Windows Vista. In many ways, this argument will soon be rendered moot: Beginning on July 1, it won&#8217;t be possible to even purchase XP through normal means or acquire the aging OS with a new PC. (For the most part, that is: You will still be able to acquire Windows XP Home Edition with so-called Ultra-Low-Cost PCs, or ULCPCs.) <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/xpsp3_02.asp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/xpsp3_02.asp\">http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/xpsp3_02.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Part 1 of my examination of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), I rhetorically asked whether XP was still &#8220;good enough&#8221; given the many advantages of its successor, Windows Vista. In many ways, this argument will soon be rendered moot: Beginning on July 1, it won&#8217;t be possible to even purchase XP through normal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}