Forget Vista SP1 where is XP SP3?

It bothers me that Microsoft will be offering the first service pack for Vista before a third service pack for XP. Windows XP service pack 2 has been out since August 25, 2004, and there has been no rush on a service pack with the estimated date of arrival being in the latter half of 2007. This angers me for 2 reasons:


1. The only reason Microsoft is pushing for the release of Vista is due to lackluster sales of the operating system. Microsoft has to know that many people are waiting on the first service pack to be released before upgrading to Vista. This means that customers using XP are no longer priority and are being pushed to the side to grow profits, and with the kind of mentality no wonder they are starting to lose many of their customers to OS X and linux.

2. If you are running a clean install of Windows XP with service pack 2 it takes much longer to wait on all the updates to install, as to the alternative of having a service pack slipstreamed. Windows XP post service pack 2 updates keep coming, and service pack 3 is still a long ways out.

So as you can see Microsoft is putting profits before customer satisfaction. Here is a tip for Microsoft, if you keep your older customers happy they are more likely to upgrade.