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Windows XP SP3 leaked
by Peter White Aug 9th 2007 at 10:51PM
Robin Hood was revered because he stole from the rich and gave to the poor. And while it's not quite the same thing, there isn't a whole lot of sympathy being thrown towards Microsoft when it was heard that a testing release of Windows XP SP3 was leaked and is floating around the internet now. Everyone loved watching Mel Gibson prove he's an idiot. Everyone loved watching Kramer lose his mind. And everyone loves when things don't go as planned for Microsoft. We love when people who seem to have everything together show that they don't. Plus this Windows leak is an hilarious slap in the face to Steven Sinofsky's little attempt at complete secrecy. It's so fitting that he'd be unsuccessful at keeping things secret, since he looks a bit like a really terrible magician (see picture).SP3 was given to a limited pool of testers in July, after being repeatedly delayed. It was originally planned to be release in 2005. Boy, did that ever go well. The leaked version of SP3 is not quite the finished product, or even a completed Beta, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming an incredibly popular torrent download. It comes in at around 340 Mb and can be found pretty much everywhere. But then again, you'd never download something illegally like this, would you?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Jim Flim said 11:24PM on 8-09-2007
Wow, someones got a chip on their shoulder
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Mark said 11:46PM on 8-09-2007
Have you guys ever considered attempting being more or less neutral and unbiased?
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Shunnabunich said 11:54PM on 8-09-2007
Hate to say it, but SP3 was leaked last year. ;)
And Mark and Jim...ease up a little, a'ight? This is a blog, not a newspaper.
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David Chartier said 12:27AM on 8-10-2007
#2: Mark, Download Squad is a blog, which means we encourage our bloggers to present their opinions out in the open instead of trying to cover them up with the guise 'editorial independence' that the corporate-owned media outlets try to pass as 'news.' While I can understand the desire for an unbiased presentation, we work with the philosophy that a world without bias is more or less impossible to obtain.
That being the case, we prefer to present our opinion at face value, so readers aren't being lured into (unknowingly) taking it any other way.
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Jinto said 12:32AM on 8-10-2007
What I don't get is why someone would want to install that closed beta*, when it would be smarter to wait a couple of months after it is really released, and is semi-bug free.
* I think closed beta is the right term.
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Ivan said 3:44PM on 8-11-2007
#4 You're right. Which is why blogs in general should not be given journalist's privilege. More websites should be more open with their intentions.
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gojeda said 1:09AM on 8-10-2007
Oh gee.....more blatant anti-Microsoft bias. What a surprise.
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gojeda said 1:03AM on 8-10-2007
By the way, David, your arguement doesn't quite fly. The name of the website is 'downloadsquad.com'. It is not called 'micrsoft-teh-sux.com'. If you are truly interested in being faithful to your intentions, you should probably call, and theme, your site in a more appropriate way befitting the content. In the meantime, these crappy little hit pieces (which do not particularly inform, but preach instead) are showing up too often lately, making downloadsquad.com an increasingly like candidate for "just another blog with an agenda" award.
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David Chartier said 1:34AM on 8-10-2007
Guys it's just a few jabs at Microsoft. For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure Peter White (the author) uses Windows, and so does our lead, Grant Robinson. Hell, I even paid for a copy of Vista.
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Peter White said 1:55AM on 8-10-2007
This was written in a very light-hearted tone that perhaps wasn't properly conveyed. I apologize for that. David is right, I do in fact use Windows and am very happy with it. But come on, it's always fun to take some shots at Microsoft. It's all in good fun. Except the magician comment. His picture does really look like it could be a bad magician's headshot.
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Deckard said 2:19AM on 8-10-2007
Taking some shots at Microsoft is not a proper characterization of the over-the-top gleeful hatred dripping from every sentence.
Thank you for helping me clean up my newsreader.
Downloadsquad = deleted.
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ethana2 said 2:51AM on 8-10-2007
Microsoft hate? What is this, the internet?
Creative Commons, GNU FTW!
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cj said 9:19AM on 8-10-2007
wow....defenders of microsoft coming ou of the woodwork....twats....
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David said 9:19AM on 8-10-2007
OK, I agree downloadsquad bloggers have a right to express their own opinions, but assuming everyone thinks like them "Everyone loves..." is just beyond what I want to read.
Compare this post with the neutral, politically correct "Google launches paid plans for increased Gmail and Picasa storage"...
Come on guys, when will you understand Google as a whole is far more dangerous than Microsoft ?
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dg10050 said 9:19AM on 8-10-2007
@14
Go work at Google for a few months and tell me that they're a terrible company. >_>
Now go work at Microsoft for a few months.
Compare.
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BillyG said 9:48AM on 8-10-2007
Since you're so happy to have it, why not make it available so others don't have to wait?
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ahoier said 12:02PM on 8-10-2007
Yea, I dont see the big deal....I never understood downloading "software" from p2p networks....who knows what those EXEs could be littered with. Especially those "custom" XP installs you can download...lol.
And especailly something as serious as a service pack, I think it would be safer to wait for a secured and "legit" release from Microsoft, rather than some beta, and possibly unstable piece of crap...
But who knows, watch Microsoft put in some verification process into the "real" Service Pack 3, which will search out and bring those "early downloaders" systems to their knees or something...
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Reno582 said 12:16PM on 8-10-2007
It'll be funny to see how many idiots complain to Microsoft after downloading and installing the leaked service pack, theres a reason its not released yet, IT WILL FUCK UP YOUR COMPUTER!!!!
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gojeda said 7:20PM on 8-10-2007
"Go work at Google for a few months and tell me that they're a terrible company. Now go work at Microsoft for a few months. Compare."
Coming from someone who has worked at neither, I fail to see the point in your statement above.
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RP said 3:42PM on 8-10-2007
Yeah, I already get my daily Microsoft hate at slashdot.org. I'm saturated.
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