Fresh Release of Windows XP SP3 RTM
Service Pack 3 for the Windows client was released to manufacturing on April 21, 2008, and made generally available for download on May 6.
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19.11.2008 Broken Windows XP SP3 Installation Scenarios
Microsoft is still far from wrapping up with the third and final service pack for Windows XP, just the 32-bit version of Windows Vista's predecessor.
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16.7.2008 Starting today, July 10, 2008 - Windows XP SP3 Is Live via Automatic Updates
The third and last service pack for the 32-bit version of Windows XP has debuted on the path to automatic distribution today, July 10, 2008. Initially, Microsoft was shy about pinpointing the actual deadline for XP SP3's availability through Automatic Updates, and only referenced an abstract "early summer" in order to give users a clue as to when they should get ready.
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10.7.2008 Microsoft sets Windows XP SP3 automatic download for Thursday
The vague timetable that Microsoft gave Monday for pushing out Windows XP SP3 to most users got specific Tuesday as the company quietly said it would release the upgrade on Thursday at 10 a.m. PDT.
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9.7.2008 No Future for Windows XP SP3?
Make no mistake about it, June 30, 2008 is the beginning of the end for Windows XP, even with Service Pack 3 available for two months now, since May 6.
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13.6.2008 Symantec tool cleans up Windows XP SP3 registry corruption
Symantec Thursday released a free tool that wipes spurious entries from Windows' registry that had crippled some PCs running the company's security software after they were upgraded to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) or Vista SP1.
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9.6.2008 Microsoft Killed Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate 2 RC2 Refresh
The third and last service pack for Windows XP is barely out the door and Microsoft has rushed to put the past behind it.
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7.5.2008 Get Ready for the Slipstream - Integrated Windows XP SP3 RTM Disks
Following its natural course of evolution, after being released to manufacturing on April 21, 2008, Windows XP Service Pack 3 began shipping to Microsoft's OEM partners, and subsequently to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
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24.4.2008 The Only Way for Windows XP SP3 Is Down
SP3 will do nothing for XP, but still more than what SP1 will do for Vista - The third and final service pack for Windows XP will do little to nothing for the operating system, but will manage to deliver a superior boost to the platform's momentum in comparison to Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista.
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12.4.2008 Microsoft: Windows XP SP3 RTM?
The page states General Availability Date of XP SP3 is 31/03/2008 meaning it may well have RTM'd already but the software giant has not made an official public announcement.
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2.4.2008 Microsoft: There Is Only One Windows XP SP3 RC2
While Microsoft has already finished building Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1/RTM, the development of Windows XP Service Pack 3 continues with the finishing line still at a distance.
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29.2.2008 New Windows XP SP3 RC2 Build 3311 Available
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 was released following the RTM of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1 in the first week of February.
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25.2.2008 Is Windows XP SP3 just around the corner?
Clues that Microsoft is ready to announce the final version of Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 are starting to mount.
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20.2.2008 Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Vista SP1 RC Refresh Ships – Windows XP SP3 RC Refresh Next?
Should you hold your breath for a new version of Windows XP SP3? Currently, Microsoft has opened up the testing process of the third and final service pack for Windows XP, and, now, all users of the operating system have access to the first Release Candidate of the refresh, as of late 2007.
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10.1.2008 The Evolution of the Windows XP SP3 Activation Architecture
With the availability of the third and final service pack for Windows XP in early 2008, Microsoft will introduce a series of modifications to the operating system's fabric.
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28.12.2007 Microsoft: Windows XP SP3 Available EARLY! in 2008
Microsoft has officially confirmed that the final version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 is planned for availability in early(!) 2008.
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21.12.2007 Deploying Windows XP SP3
With a pre-Release Candidate build of Windows XP Service Pack 3 available for download, the imminence of the final version of the refresh is starting to take contour.
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13.12.2007 Hack Available to Download Windows XP SP3 RC from Microsoft
That's right! Now you can get your hands on the first Release Candidate for Windows XP Service Pack 3! And all it will take is the implementation of a simple registry hack designed to allow Windows XP users to access, download and install Service Pack 3 Release Candidate straight from Microsoft.
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22.11.2007 Want a Taste of Windows XP SP3 RC? How About Some Screenshots?
As you undoubtedly know by now, the first Release Candidate for Windows XP SP3 is live. At the end of the past week, accompanying the Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate Preview, XP SP3 was made available via Microsoft Connect.
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21.11.2007 New Windows XP SP3 Beta Build 3205 Leaked to Torrent Trackers
The latest build of Windows XP SP3 Beta has been leaked to Peer-to-Peer file sharing networks. Following the availability of Release Candidate 0 for Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn as well as the first fully-fledged beta for Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft also dropped another beta version of the third and final Service Pack for Windows XP.
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11.10.2007 Vista SP1 Beta Download Next Week? Windows XP SP3 Missing in Action
Microsoft is hard at work cooking the upcoming releases of Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Server 2008 RC 0, formerly codenamed Longhorn.
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21.9.2007 Microsoft Confirms Windows XP SP3
The second service pack (SP 2) for Windows XP was a watershed release. Dropped in August 2004, it addressed a number of issues on the security side: turning Windows Firewall on, rather than off, by default, and including a pop-up blocker in Internet Explorer were two of the major changes.
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31.7.2007 Microsoft response to Windows XP sp3 article
I received a response from the Windows team at Microsoft:
Microsoft did not have any prior plans to release SP3 in 2005 or 2006. It was reported almost one year ago that Steve said SP3 ?might? ship before Windows Vista; however, since that time the focus has been and continues to be shipping Windows Vista. We are tentatively targeting the second half of 2007 to release XP SP3.
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18.1.2006 DOWNLOAD Windows XP SP3 Preview Pack RC3
The new Windows XP SP3 Preview Pack #3 has been released and can be downloaded from the site today. It includes over 25+ new fixes since the last preview pack that we released. Many hard-to-find fixes are in this package.
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DOWNLOAD Windows XP SP3 Preview Pack Release candidate 2
The unofficial Windows XP SP3 Preview Pack RC2 has now been released! Details are included in the pack. Over 191 hotfixes are included.
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It's Time to Face the Ugly Truth, SP3 or No SP3, the Clock Is Ticking for Windows XP
As 2008 has kicked in, it's now time to face the ugly truth. The clock is ticking for Windows XP. And while Microsoft may view this as a natural stage in the evolution of a product introduced all the way in 2001, a healthy proportion of end-users and businesses will fail to see eye to eye with the company on this one.
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5.1.2008 XP SP3 Does Not Support Windows XP
Believe it or not, but Microsoft does not support Windows XP with XP SP3. Well, maybe that's not entire true. But it is true nonetheless. End users will find they they are unable to deploy XP SP3 on top of XP. What is the catch?
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16.1.2008 Vista SP1 RC Leaves XP SP2 in the Dust, but What About XP SP3?
Although Microsoft has indicated a strong disapproval of benchmarking tests involving development milestones of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the temptation is simply too big to ignore.
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17.1.2008 Microsoft Makes Its Own Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2, Leaves XP SP3 Out
Ever since the advent of Window Vista, at the end of November 2006 for businesses and in January 2007 for the general public, Microsoft has virtually invited the comparison between the two operating systems.
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8.5.2008Microsoft to Release Windows XP SP3 Later This Year
Microsoft is set to release
not only Windows Server 2008,
but also Windows XP Service
Pack 3 later this year,
according to a recent press
release on Microsoft
PressPass. It has been
suspected in the p..
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24.05.2007Microsoft Confirms Windows XP SP3
Unfortunately, Microsoft is
releasing few details about
the service pack. According to
an e-mail from a Microsoft
spokesperson, "We're
currently planning to deliver
SP3 for Windows XP in the
first hal..
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31.07.2007Microsoft extends the Windows XP SP3 Beta testers
For more info,
see our news post from yesterday.
Spy: This morning I received an email from t..
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05.10.2007New Features Discovered in Windows XP SP3: Is It Better Than Vista?
The principal reason given for the tremendous under-the-hood changes to Windows unveiled early this year in Vista was the need to overhaul the
security model. Now it seems many of those changes are al..
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10.10.2007Office 2007 SP1 goes live, Windows XP SP3 RC1 follows along
As anticipated and without much fanfare, Microsoft this morning made active links for downloads of Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 1, as
well as the complete Office 2007 Service Pack 1...
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12.12.2007New NX APIs added to Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Server 2008
Michael Howard: In the interests of helping secure the platform, we want more people to opt-in to using Data Execution Prevention (aka DEP aka NX),
and we have lowered the barrier to entry for applica..
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30.01.2008Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website,
PC Inpact, has posted
the official Microsoft product change request forms for ..
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06.02.2008Despite rumors, Windows XP SP3 still not quite ready
With Windows Vista Service Pack 1 out the door, Microsoft was largely expected to release Windows XP SP3 last week or this week. It didn't, instead
making public a refresh build of SP3 Release Candida..
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26.03.2008Exclusive - Microsoft: Windows XP SP3 RTM
Thanks to one of our very own eagle eyed members kevpan815 we have spotted an interesting page on Microsoft.com regarding XP's support life
cycle.
The page states General Availability D..
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02.04.2008Signs point to imminent arrival of Windows XP SP3
Signs coming from Microsoft indicate that Windows XP Service Pack 3 is finally ready for public release. But is the company just playing an April
fools joke?..
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02.04.2008Microsoft: Windows XP SP3 RTM?
Thanks to one of our very own eagle eyed members kevpan815 we have spotted an interesting page on Microsoft.com regarding XP's support life
cycle.
The page states General Availability D..
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03.04.2008Installing Branded IE7 on Windows XP SP3
Jane Maliouta: Last week, I blogged about installing Windows XP SP3 and how it affects different versions of Internet Explorer (See my earlier blog
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16.05.2008BiPAC Router crashes blamed on Windows XP SP3
Broadband modem/router maker Billion says XP SP3 has been causing its BiPAC 5200-series routers to go into a constant crash and reboot cycle.
The company has produced firmware upg..
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07.06.2008Symantec tool cleans up Windows XP SP3 registry corruption
Symantec Thursday released a free tool that wipes spurious entries from Windows' registry that had crippled some PCs running the company's
security software after they were upgraded to Windows..
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09.06.2008Windows 7 build 6956 vs. Windows XP SP3
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Several of you have asked me to add data for Windows XP to my
Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista benchmark post. ..
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12.12.2008Despite rumors, Windows XP SP3 still not quite ready
With Windows Vista Service Pack 1 out the door, Microsoft was largely expected to release Windows XP SP3 last week or this week. It didn't, instead
making public a refresh build of SP3 Release Candidate 2...
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26.03.2008Windows XP SP3 moves closer to completion
Beta testers have received access to a release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3, but general consumers still have a long wait until they'll see
SP3 available for download...
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20.11.2007Microsoft continues to warn of IE8 lock-in for XP SP3 users
Last year when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Jane Maliouta announced that consumers using Windows XP SP3 would be locked-in with the
IE8 if they had installed the IE8 beta prior to upgrading to SP3. Microsoft again yesterday issued that same warning to it's consumers. If you are
still one of the millions of users on Windows XP with SP3 installed, Microsoft has provided crucial steps to follow if you're ready to upgrade to
IE8 RC1. You can obtain IE8 RC1 from the links on this page. To see if you're one of the people who will have IE8 locked in, follow these steps.
Is your computer running Windows XP SP3?
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27.01.2009Windows XP SP3 Not Until Late
2007
According to an update on
Microsoft's support lifecycle
Web site, the next service
pack for Windows XP isn't due
out until the second half of
2007 -- one full year after
Windows Vista launches. XP SP3
will likely serve as a
cumulative update for what
will soon become Microsoft's
legacy operating system...
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