Windows XP SP3 Beta

To take a little side note I’d like to drift into a company that I’m not to fond of. Microsoft. Microsoft has had good years but recently they’ve been really stupid for lack of a better word and I’ve been generaly unimpressed. However thier beta’s are always perfect for me, if Microsoft has a beta and I can test it you bet your ass I will because I know its the good one. Every beta I’ve ever tested for Microsoft for me has run 10 times better then the final version. Service Pack 3 for XP is a different story. You’d think running a beta service pack would cause instability and problems for a computer however I will say this SP3 runs perfectly stable. Any problems I have had are not resulted from SP3 I have slow internet which is a combination of unresponsibness from Safari and Bell and Internet Explorer is just crap so its hardly even usable but at least its crashing less now after instaling SP3. All in all for the first time in over a year I am finaly impressed with Microsoft and I’m hoping that when SP3 goes into final (and I’m hoping it does) I’m hoping it’ll be even better then it is now and not worse like everything else I’ve seen. Also I’m excited for Vista SP1 because maybe then Vista will be useable.