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Windows Vista faces backward compatibility problems with many of the games and utility programs that work in Windows XP. As of August 2007, there were about 2,000 applications that specifically carried the 'Vista Compatibility Logo', [3] although the majority of applications without the logo will run without any problems.
Windows XP Professional Windows Embedded Standard 2009 — December 14, 2008: Windows XP Service Pack 3 Windows Embedded Standard 7: Quebec: 2010: Windows 7 Windows Embedded 8 — 2013: Windows 8 Windows Embedded 8.1 — 2013: Windows 8.1
Windows Vista Starter is licensed to run only on PCs with AMD's Athlon XP, Duron, Sempron and Geode processors, Intel's Celeron, Pentium III processors, and certain models of Pentium 4. Windows Vista Starter can be installed from optical media including those belonging to other editions of the operating system. [16]
The third and final Service Pack, SP3, was released through different channels between April 21 [81] and June 10, 2008, [82] about a year after the release of Windows Vista, and about a year before the release of Windows 7. Service Pack 3 was not available for Windows XP x64 Edition, which was based on the Windows Server 2003 kernel and, as a ...
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Pre-Beta 6002.16489.lh_sp2beta.080924-1740 (Version 105) Released in October 2008. Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta 6002.16497.081017-1605 (Version 113) Released December 4, 2008. The download became available in the Microsoft Download Center. Windows Vista Service Pack 2 RC Escrow 6002.16659.090114-1728 (Version 275)
For the same reason, Service Pack 2 for Windows XP x64 Edition, released on the March 13, 2007, is not the same as Service Pack 2 for 32-bit versions of Windows XP. [43] In fact, due to the earlier release date of the 32-bit version, many of the key features introduced by Service Pack 2 for 32-bit (x86) editions of Windows XP were already ...
Windows 2000 SP4 installation disc. Service Packs for Microsoft Windows were cumulative through Windows XP. This means that the problems that are fixed in a service pack are also fixed in later service packs. For example, Windows XP SP3 contains all the fixes that are included in Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). [4]
Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 was released through different channels between April 28 [125] and June 9, 2009, one year after the release of Windows Vista SP1, and four months before the release of Windows 7. [126] In addition to a number of security and other fixes, a number of new features have been added.