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It may be a Microsoft creation but it doesn't play well with other Microsoft products.

No sooner had Microsoft released the second beta of Internet Explorer 8, then it warned users of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) might not be able to uninstall either the service pack or IE8 in some circumstances. This is not unusual. When Microsoft released SP3 last May it warned users that they wouldn't be able to downgrade from IE7 to IE6 without uninstalling the service pack. The issue arises only under a specific set of circumstances. It only affects XP users who installed beta 1 of IE 8 (issued in March) and then XP SP 3 (issued in May). That's the scenario as described by Jane Maliouta, a Microsoft program manager, on the IE Blog. In that situation, a dialog box pops up alerting the user that a service pack was installed after the installation of beta 1, and if they continue it becomes permanent. That may sound dire, but your system can be upgraded in the future. "You will still be able to upgrade to later IE8 builds as they become available, but you won't be able to uninstall them," Maliouta wrote on the blog post. RELATED ARTICLES On Again, Off Again, XP SP3 Back On Microsoft's IE8 Beta Sports New UI Features Microsoft Aims to Make IE8 IT-Friendly Tech-Ed 2008: Gates' Long Goodbye For more stories on this topic: She recommended that users instead first uninstall Windows XP SP3, then uninstall IE8 Beta 1, then reinstall XP SP3 and finally, IE8 Beta 2. That could translate into a... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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