Microsoft has begun rolling out to testers a near-final Release Candidate (RC) build of Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3. Testers said they began pulling down the bits from Microsoft's private download ...

Even though Microsoft began pushing out a public test build of Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 the week of December 10, it wasn't until December 18 that the company would acknowledge officially the ...

Despite reports that Windows XP Service Pack SP3 would hit Release to Manufacturing (RTM) soon after the RTW of Vista SP1, Microsoft has released yet another build of the next (and possibly last) ...

Microsoft Corp. today released a new public version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), saying it was again testing the update’s online distribution. Dubbed Windows XP SP3 RC2 Refresh, the new build ...

Two weeks after it last handed a new build of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to several thousand invitation-only testers, Microsoft Corp. today posted that version for public downloading. “We’re ...

Yes, we realize it's just a roll-up of fixes for the most part, but without the Autopatcher project, we really need a new baseline for system builds. Around 15,000 testers now have access to XP SP3, ...

Right on time, Windows XP SP3 has been released to the world, and is now available for download. As per the unofficial timeline, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has finally hit the Release to Web (RTW ...

Officially, Microsoft has been saying "the first half of 2008" whenever the company is asked to put a date for the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). However, various sources have been ...

Microsoft fixed a critical 'endless reboot' vulnerability in XP's still-unfinished SP3 weeks before it fixed any other version of Windows The appearance and disappearance of a Windows XP installation ...

Microsoft has been promising a cheap-and-cheerful upgrade path to Windows 8 for those who buy new PCs. But what about that five-year-old PC in the basement? If the historically well-connected Mary Jo ...

XP SP3 Release Candidate 2 is now available from the Microsoft Download Center to users running PCs with XP SP2 installed, a Microsoft spokesperson said in an email to ChannelWeb. Microsoft earlier ...