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Windows XP SP3 Release Dates


section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 15.4.2008

With Service Pack 3 for Windows XP just over the horizon, we've managed to get our hands on the internal schedule for the release of the highly anticipated update to the aging operating system.




As you can see in the list below, most of the stages will occur before the end of the month, though forced automatic updates won't land until June. This delay should give system administrators an ample amount of time to prepare for the upgrade or simply come up with an excuse for when things go awry.

* April 14, 2008: Support is available for the release version of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP
* April 21, 2008: Original Equipment Manufacturers, Volume License, Connect, and MSDN and TechNet subscribers
* April 29, 2008: Microsoft Update, Windows Update, Download Center
* June 10, 2008: Automatic Updates

Download: Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview

source: microsoft.com

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Comments(22)

DRAGGING THERE ASSES

By fubarexpress on 16.04.2008 - 06:04
sp3 final should of been released already.. we all know service pack 1 for vista suxx like a whore.. they are just dragging there asses on the release.

Silly Question

By Vista is just ok on 16.04.2008 - 07:04
will sp3 be for x64 as well as x86 xp ???

Vista RULEZ! XP is HISTORY!

By Core 2 Extreme Quad on 16.04.2008 - 07:04
vista sp1 is a new beginning for advanced technology!

windows xp is for losers!

XP is for vinatge PC's

By IQ on 16.04.2008 - 10:04
xp is old and outdated, its time to move on.

XP is for vinatge PC's

By TO IQ on 16.04.2008 - 10:04
"xp is old and outdated, its time to move on" . . . . so? vista is new and crappy. xp will continue updated and is not that old

XP is xp

By _IND_ on 16.04.2008 - 11:04
vista is for girls,who just want to browse the web.

delaying it further!!

By ash on 16.04.2008 - 13:04
so sp3 won,t come till the end of april??

vista

By uzkingz on 16.04.2008 - 13:04
vista is new, the future of gaming graphics and technoloy and it beats xp 100 times over. vista is very new compared to xp which is over 4 years old. also just because sp3 is coming out for xp dont mean it's better than vista and how do you feel microsof are not making anything else after sp3 so shame. windows 7 and vista is the new technology for the future and xp will be discontinued, so you can have your shity xp, it only makes you bigger noobs.

Vista

By Me on 16.04.2008 - 15:04
i got news for you, everything on the grapevine indicates that vista suc.ks donkey diks and is being replaced with windows 7 june (jit for the xmas rush folks) of 09. xp is far superior, its snappier, has application compatibility, plus it does not have the pervasive drm to the extent that vista does. vista is slow, freezes, and calls home every 30 seconds to give microsoft a report on the user. vista is for noobs that dont know any better. vista guzzles cpu and memory resources like a cheap whore of an os that it is.
vista was made for hollywood noobs, not the home user, surprize! your not even number 3 on microsofts list of whose important. computer it people worldwide have rejected vista in favor of xp and windows 7. because vista is such a loooser record numbers of people have and are migrating to linix, apple, reactos, and other open software platforms. i refuse to pay for a quad core from wintel to pay for drm suc.king my resources dry, ill save the money for me instead. a decent os upgrade should not force people to replace their hardware, it ought to be backwards compatible and run most of the software the previous os did. vista is just backwards and does not. this is the fault of microsoft, because it was their responsibility to communicate with hardware manufacturers, and they failed. as a result they have another windows miilinium, a failure.

Support is ending

By IQ on 16.04.2008 - 15:04
"so? vista is new and crappy. xp will continue updated and is not that old"

it is very old, main support is ending, only those with new low end pc's will get support.
after sp3, thats it no more service packs..

Same old crap talk with XP

By IQ on 16.04.2008 - 15:04
"i got news for you, everything on the grapevine indicates that vista suc.ks donkey diks and is being replaced with windows 7 june (jit for the xmas rush folks) of 09. xp is far superior, its snappier, has application compatibility, plus it does not have the pervasive drm to the extent that vista does. vista is slow, freezes, and calls home every 30 seconds to give microsoft a report on the user. vista is for noobs that dont know any better. vista guzzles cpu and memory resources like a cheap whore of an os that it is.
vista was made for hollywood noobs, not the home user, surprize! your not even number 3 on microsofts list of whose important. computer it people worldwide have rejected vista in favor of xp and windows 7. because vista is such a loooser record numbers of people have and are migrating to linix, apple, reactos, and other open software platforms. i refuse to pay for a quad core from wintel to pay for drm suc.king my resources dry, ill save the money for me instead. a decent os upgrade should not force people to replace their hardware, it ought to be backwards compatible and run most of the software the previous os did. vista is just backwards and does not. this is the fault of microsoft, because it was their responsibility to communicate with hardware manufacturers, and they failed. as a result they have another windows miilinium, a failure. "
we got the same old crap talk with xp as we are now with vista.

vista is fine, it’s only those who have device driver problems, and that is down to the third party vendors to fix, not microsoft...
bad device drivers cause more cpu and ram usage...


XP works just fine for me

By cBc on 16.04.2008 - 16:04
..using the hardware i already own, & it does everything i need it to do.
so tell me again why i need to switch to vista?
drm?
blinken lights?
purty pitchers?

I hate Microsoft

By Me on 16.04.2008 - 18:04
hey people check this out: an open source platform called reatos claiming to be a clone of windows! its reverse engineered. its sorta primitive at this point. i swear if windows seven is as shitty as vista ill migrate to something when xp crumbles. basically vista s.ucks.

reactos let me know what you guys think

http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html

Vista for Girls

By Negative on 16.04.2008 - 20:04
well finally someone has said something that is totally the truth....why? come on now...

girls like to decorate their purses or jeans or whatever the damn wear. their rooms are totally a phraking mess..going into there rooms is like going to iraq and sit in a little cafe shop till someone past by to explode the damn place.

vista is the same damn thing. more decorations and you wait till it exploded. its a damn w.h.o.r.e

now let the vista babies lovers alone!

This is so fun...

By Spunk on 16.04.2008 - 21:04
it is so fun reading all those vista sux xp sux posts...

no one can really say that 1 su.ck more than the other, it is (in part) down to the eye of the beholder.

personally i don't see the need for vista since xp seems more efficient on current hardware. if that is the hardware producers driver problem or just vista that suc.k, doesn't really change the perspective for me personally, i look at the performance given, not who's to blame.

one statement is that vista is "the future of gaming graphics and technoloy".. hmm, why? if it is cuz' of dx10 i suggest u try to view some screenshots in crysis and compare dx9 to dx10.. there is virtually no difference. dx10 was probably only created to push vista, not to create better graphics..

but again, if u have the hardware, love the eye candy and don't mind wasting cpu cycles on aero, go ahead and run vista. but don't say it's cuz it's faster than xp, cuz that is a lie!

XP Still Holds up for business

By Seti Neroon on 16.04.2008 - 22:04
you can not afford to "diss" xp. sp2 has been very stable and remains so now. i as a oem am not as yet happy to role out vista to my business customers. i hope sp1 will help convince me otherwise. but my neck is on the line and i am a beliver is "if it aint broke dont fix it"

SP3 Release Dates?

By bpsplp on 17.04.2008 - 01:04
i won't hold my breath

XP to be inducted into a museum

By ..:::XP:::.. on 17.04.2008 - 11:04
xp is prehistoric, a relic, old fashioned, needs to be put in a retirement home for its final days on this earth. they actually found an xp in a tomb in egypt..so ancient :p

..:::XP:::..

By Negative on 17.04.2008 - 16:04
rather have something from the tomb in egypt at least i know it is worth something than have something that come from the ass of some noob that forgot to wipe.

The wheel is ancient too, but it works...

By Spunk on 18.04.2008 - 20:04
ancient??, age has nothing to do with it.. the age of xp doesn't make vista run any smoother or faster.. vista in business is not needed, business' focus on what makes them more efficient, and vista don't do that. in fact vista makes them upgrade machines to run the things they used to run just fine on ols machines with xp..

on the homefront, -ma_ybe, i can see the use for vista..

Vista vs XP

By pheonix on 21.04.2008 - 06:04
i prefer xp for now. ill just wait for windows 7. vista is good too, but very expensive as for now. microsoft is abandoning xp but what about the costumers that bought their xp product? its that unfair? well as of now theres a lot of os to choose from. for now linux is the best candidate to migrate. windows 7 soon lets just see

VISTA TRANFORMATION 8.01 WON'T SUPPORT FOR XP SP3

By Mao on 21.04.2008 - 16:04
beware


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