Windows XP SP3 released on 29th April?

Author: Tim Smalley
Published: 15th April 2008
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Windows XP SP3 will be released to the general public on April 29th, according to a report on Neowin.

Windows XP SP3 will be released to the general public on April 29th, according to a report on Neowin.

According to reports that have popped up on the web, Microsoft is preparing to release Windows XP Service Pack 3 to the public before the turn of the month.

Support was reportedly available for the release version of SP3 from yesterday, with Microsoft planning to roll out the Service Pack to OEM, Volume License, Connect, MSDN and Technet customers on 21st April.

The report says that the update will then be deployed to Microsoft Update, Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center on the 29th April and then on 10th June, it will be made available via Automatic Updates.

There has been talk of the third Service Pack for Windows XP, Microsoft's most successful operating system to date, ever since the software giant announced that SP3 had been delayed until sometime in 2008 back in October 2006.

Reports then emerged late last year to say that Microsoft would give its Windows XP customers a performance boost with the new Service Pack, which will further increase the gap in performance between XP and Vista – Microsoft's latest operating system.

Vista hasn't been received well by customers, even despite Microsoft boasting impressive sales figures, and as recently as yesterday a study from research firm Gartner suggested that the Windows ecosystem might collapse under its own weight if drastic changes aren't made.

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Quote Burnout21 15th April 2008, 15:16
what advantages dose this SP offer?
Quote DriftCarl 15th April 2008, 15:20
I dont have any XP machines left at home. they are all perfectly working non problematic variations of vista installed for over a year.
Quote donnie 15th April 2008, 15:28
I'm curious as to whether the OEM will feature SATA drivers as slipstreaming the OS is just a pain in the arse.
Quote Buzzons 15th April 2008, 15:56
Donnie has a good point, I'd hope they have finally added teh SATA drivers :S

Burnout :: other than meaning you don't need to install ~100 updates after installing a clean XP SP2 PC it tweaks a lot of settings in XP,and also adds new features to make it easier to talk to it from 2K8 server

some details here :: http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/xp_sp3.asp
Quote sam.g.taylor 15th April 2008, 16:02
Quote:
Originally Posted by Burnout21
what advantages dose this SP offer?

Check this out... http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/11/27/windows_xp_sp3_brings_performance_boost/1
Quote Omnituens 15th April 2008, 18:28
Looks like i will hold off the formatting until i have this. have to make an new slipstreamed disk.
Quote proxess 15th April 2008, 20:27
It has huge ass performance boost. I've got the RC running on my laptop and its one heck of a breeze.
Quote OleJ 15th April 2008, 21:14
Hugh Jazz performance boost?
Quote TomH 15th April 2008, 21:25
After installing the RC on my work laptop, I saw absolutely bugger-all difference. The only nice thing I can say, is that I shouldn't have to install 5000 patches to a clean SP2 installation. :)

As for slip-streaming, I just petitioned the boss to buy a USB-FDD. £20 and it's come in handy more times than I care to think since then. :)
Quote 123mccann 15th April 2008, 21:54
I don't know how but, on my grandad's machine in system information it states he has SP3, however, if it hasn't been released i'm not sure how.
Quote reflux 15th April 2008, 22:16
I've been running the leaked BETA for a while. No noticeable performance improvement, but XP kicks Vista arse anyway so who cares?
Quote dyzophoria 17th April 2008, 04:32
nice for xp, though haven't had any xp installations any more in my office and at home :)
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