Vista users keen on SP1, but XP SP3 not so much

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Windows Vista users have jumped at the first service pack for Microsoft’s troubled operating system, but people running Windows XP haven’t been in much of a hurry to install SP3, according to a Windows performance and metrics researcher.

According to Devil Mountain Software, by the end of July, 86 percent of the machines in its community-based Exo.performance.network (Xpnet) running Vista had been upgraded to Service Pack 1 (SP1). That was a 17-point increase over the 69 percent who reported running Vista SP1 at the end of April, six weeks after Microsoft released the major update. Techworld.com - Vista users keen on SP1, but XP SP3 not so much