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We all make mistakes though :)

Yeah, it's the very same link I posted, which contains a download for SP3 functionality from Microsoft.

Haha, yes. No Aero. But there was/is at least one Vista feature coming to XP in SP3.
And it's not for the lazy people who don't run update. It's great for sys admins, as well, and people who like to...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68c48dad-bc34-40be-8d85-6bb4f56f5110&displaylang=en#filelist
No big, fancy stuff. Just some background things.

Speed increase for XP? I wouldn't think so.
SP3 will bring a few Vista-only features to XP, but in no way a lot. And I don't think they'll be that slow. Microsoft would get a lot of criticism if...

Don't know...
All I know is that Vista is far from ready for release. In the future, though, who knows? Maybe it will become a worthy successor of XP, or maybe Windows 7 will be the successor with...

Yeah, XP has an indexing service. Though I'm not sure how to use it and it's not very useful I think.
Vista has a lot of nice features, but the drivers hell and the slowness of the OS is something...