XP Home Version???

[GregMal]

If I went out today and purchased a retail XP Home upgrade
package off of the shelf (say from CompUSA or BB), would it
be the same version that was sold in October? Or has MS
updated it yet with the patches?????
Greg

 

[AndyHui]

Same as that released in October.

 

[GregMal]

So that means, since I have dialup at home, that I'd have many, many
fun hours downloading the updates/patches.......I think I'll wait for
WinXP SE........heh
Greg

 

[joebriggs]

Heh, yeah the same verison as october.

Winxp Se probably won't be out!

So have phun downloading

 

[BentValve]

<< So that means, since I have dialup at home, that I'd have many, many
fun hours downloading the updates/patches.......I think I'll wait for
WinXP SE........heh
Greg >>




That's a good idea.

 

[mastertech01]

Im sure they will have service packs just like Win2k. You can download them to a zip disk at work or on a friends broadband when they are released. So far for my setup there are only about 7 security updates and 8 necessary? other types of updates. It works pretty well out of the box.

 

[GregMal]

Yeah...My PC at work does have broadband but it's much older (the PC)
than my home PC. And neither has a zip nor CDRW drive......
I'm still thinking about it........Greg

 

[bacillus]

<< since I have dialup at home, that I'd have many, many fun hours downloading the updates/patches >>


hmm, how fast or should I say how slow is your dialup connection as I can't see you spending at most a couple of hours for critical updates,drivers & other fixes at the windows update site?

 

[GregMal]

I usually connect at about 45k. Just how many megs are we talking about
for updates/patches???
Greg

 

[Trashman]

Greg, there hasn't been that many updates to date, I'd say what about 20 updates maybe, and not very big ones either, total can't be over 10mb....if ya want it go get it, longer you wait the more ya have to download.