Several new features in Win XP SP3 Q&A According to Microsoft's news, "Windows XP Service Pack 3" will be released in the second quarter of 2008. It will be the last one of Windows XP. Service package. And the release time of Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been significantly late. In the 3 years since the release of Windows XP SP2, patches for more than 100 operating systems have been released, and users have been restarting several times after installing these, which is very troublesome. XP SP3 will combine these patches into a single package and will also provide some new features. Some of these new features are new features that were added for the first time in Windows Vista. Here are some common questions about Windows XP Service Pack 3. Q: What is Service Pack 3? A: Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is the last service pack for Windows XP. It includes many of the patches and enhancements that were released before, and includes several new features. Q: Does SP3 contain all the contents of SP1 and SP2? Or, must SP1 and SP2 be installed before installing SP3? A: XP SP3 already includes all the previous patches, so you don't need to have SP1 and SP2 installed first. And SP3 has also included all of their updates, so the SP3 installation does not require any patches or service packs to be installed before, and all versions of Windows XP are applicable. Q: Windows XP SP2 has been released for 3 years. Why is SP3 released so late? A: Microsoft has more than 77,000 employees in the world and a huge enterprise with annual revenue of 50 billion US dollars. However, due to system organization, there is a certain difference in the development manpower invested in products. For example, when starting a mainstream operating system, a huge team of developers, product managers, and program management personnel participated in the development. After the operating system was released, Microsoft transferred the product to the support team. , they develop patches or service packs. Others also have development teams that update the program through a very late patch (some non-periodic patches that are released when a serious problem occurs) via the Web. Finally, in order to develop the next mainstream operating system, it will be reorganized or newly formed a development team to restart the process described above. However, at the time, in order to complete the development of Windows XP SP2, XP's subsequent operating system, Windows Vista, was once suspended for development to give way to XP SP2. So XP SP2 (usually the service pack is provided as a free update) becomes a major operating system-level update package, and is also involved in product development outside of Microsoft's support department. XP SP2 is also the first service pack to be intervened by departments outside the product support department. After XP SP2 was completed, most of the developers who participated in the program moved to other development plans, and more of them were transferred to Vista or Windows Server 2008 development plans. The Windows XP SP3 program was also due to Microsoft's idle employees completing the final job of Windows Vista. At the time, the development progress of Windows Vista has been postponed for many years. Therefore, they turned their attention to the forgotten XP next-generation service pack earlier this year. Q: There are a lot of new features now, what new features will there be? A: Windows XP SP3's large-scale new feature update is not one, but it has four small-scale new features in system reliability and security. When it's different from the story, Microsoft is now very active in publicizing information about these new features. These new features will include the following features: Compatibility with Network Access Protection. This feature, released a few years ago, enables Windows XP computers to collaborate with the NAP features of Windows Server 2008. This feature has been added to the RTM version of Windows Vista. Installation options for product keys are not required. As with Windows Vista, a new installation of XP after applying SP3 eliminates the need to enter the product key (serial number) in the installation interface. Kernel Mode Cryptographics Module. According to Microsoft, this should be a new kernel module that "contains some of the different encryption methods". “Black Hole” route check method. With this feature, you can ignore certain network routes and not send network packets correctly under XP. This is also a feature in Windows Vista. The new features are just the above. Q: Is it just these features? Any other things you can pay attention to? A: The new components have nothing more than the ones described above. In addition to the new features, there are some updated versions of programs that have been released long before and can be downloaded for integration with Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Media Player 11. In addition, there are some functions that are deleted by the "Address Bar" in the "Taskbar" & rdquo;. Q: So why is Microsoft releasing this update? Isn't there a lot of people ready to migrate to the Vista environment now? A: Windows XP has improved security, stability and reliability after applying XP SP2, and Windows Vista has been released since then. If you consider these, maybe XP SP3 is not necessary. But this does not make it a decision. In the future, there are still many companies planning to import many new Windows XP-based computers. And XP SP2 has also released many update patches, which is also a well-known thing. More than 100 updates released after SP2 are redeploying applications in an enterprise environment, which is a nightmare experience. For users who are already using XP and have regular system updates, there may be no point in the release of XP SP3. However, for users who want to import XP's basic requirements for next-generation computers in the future, XP SP3 is the release that they can focus on. Or another route to import into the Vista environment. Of course, Vista will survive longer than XP and will also provide updates with truly new features. Q: When will Microsoft release XP SP3? A: Microsoft will release Windows XP Service Pack 3 in the second quarter of 2008, which is about three months after the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008.