If this is true, all SP2 machines may have hundreds of unpatched security holes so I stand by the description as 'crazy'. security patches for SP2 stopped in 2010. Most of the SP2 users have those security patches (got them via updates).Īccording to what I read e.g. SP3 is a collection of security patches plus a few new (minor) features. So as I said before, around 17% XP-SP2 users. You are saying that half of all people running XP are still running this crazy version without 4 years of security patches?ġ) Lucky on 5 different computers with all the upgrades between 9.0 and 11.0.3 ?Ģ) Approx half of those 33% XP users have SP2. According to =10&qpcustomd=0 all releases of XP is 33%. I find the figure 16-20% market share of XP SP2 as interesting.

Even Vista is not supported for Reader 11.Ģ) Microsoft dropped support for SP2 in 2010. Only the systems used by the most people are supported. SP2 was NEVER supported for Reader 11, and you were just lucky to be able to install it. So the dev team changed something in the 11.0.4 installer.Ģ) maybe not faster, but more stable and secure.ģ) the statistics on july 2013 show around 50/50% the SP2/SP3 users.Īnd Windows XP the 2nd popular OS (after Win 7).ġ) Nothing has been downgraded, because the supported system requirements have not changed. No problem with the 11.0.3 installers on XP SP2 No problem with the 11.0.4 installers on XP SP3 and Win 7. 'The upgrade patch cannot install the Windows Installer service because the program to be updated may be missing,or the upgrade patch may update a diferent version of the program.' The same crash with the same error message:

Have you tried the update patch ( ) instead of the full installer?Ģ) As for XP-SP2: when XP-SP3 was released in 2008 I found it significantly faster than previous service packs, so I immediately updated everyone in the company I worked then.ģ) I think (but I have no recent statistics) that SP3 is far more spread than SP2, but that hardly matters much, as Microsoft is about to pull the plug on SP3 within the next half year.Ĥ) But I am pretty sure that Adobe will continue to support Windows XP, as it remains very popular in home and corporate environments.ġ) Pat, I tried all the available installers. 1) I do not know why 11.0.4 no longer installs on XP-SP2.

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