Microsoft Releases winXP sp1

SuperSparks, I phoned Microsoft on that number and they directed me to www.microsoft.com/uk/windowsxp

Amazingly they are giving it away completely free, not even charging postage, WOW..........

Yeah, they did the same thing with SP1 for OfficeXP a few months ago, before I got my b/b connection.
Actually, we seem to get some good deals in the UK even though the prices are nominally higher than in the US. I got ME at half price, £50 off WinXP Pro, and £120 off Office XP Pro. The only MS products I've had to pay full price for in the last 2 years were Win2000 and Encarta. Perhaps we're not as hard done by as we sometimes think we are :D

Interesting read at the following url regarding XP-SP1, particularly the referenced PC World article and the grc.com mini fix. Would seem that the SP1 fix is worse than the cure.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...,558825,00.asp

SP1 is off both my XP machines.

It would seem 1984 has arrived 18 yrs. late and Big Brother ain't the government, it's MS.