{"id":9,"date":"2007-12-06T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2007\/12\/06\/windows-xp-service-pack-3-release-candidate-1-overview-and-screenshots.aspx"},"modified":"2007-12-06T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T08:07:00","slug":"windows-xp-service-pack-3-release-candidate-1-overview-and-screenshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 1 Overview and Screenshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p mce_keep=\"true\">This week, Microsoft shipped the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), a near-final look at the last XP service pack. I&#8217;ve categorized XP SP3 as a long, final goodbye to an old friend, and booting into XP to install this update certainly brought back some nostalgic memories. But seriously, folks: It&#8217;s time to walk away. There&#8217;s just nothing compelling here when you compare XP with SP3 to its much newer and improved counterpart, Windows Vista (see my Vista Activity Center).<\/p>\n<p mce_keep=\"true\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/xpsp3_rc1.asp\">http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/showcase\/xpsp3_rc1.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Microsoft shipped the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), a near-final look at the last XP service pack. I&#8217;ve categorized XP SP3 as a long, final goodbye to an old friend, and booting into XP to install this update certainly brought back some nostalgic memories. But seriously, [&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-9","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\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}