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Service Pack 3
Name: Kay Tee Pren Tiss Date: April 1, 2008 at 13:07:59 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: Quad Core Q6600 Product: ASUS P5B-E
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When is it going to be released? If it is released now, where do I download it and why isn't it on the Microsoft Website?
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Name: babysdad Date: April 1, 2008 at 14:11:36 Pacific
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i downloaded service pack 3, worked perfectly. download from micro$
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Response Number 4
Name: JackDog Date: April 1, 2008 at 14:13:52 Pacific
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Quote:
"Q: When will Microsoft ship XP SP3? A: The company says that Windows XP Service Pack 3 will ship in the second quarter of 2008. However, you can now download a near-final version of XP3, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/... called Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Refresh. My expectation is that XP SP3 will be completed very early in Q2 2008 (i.e. April).
--Paul Thurrott October 12, 2007 "
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Response Number 5
Name: Intel 80486 (by meisinscotland) Date: April 1, 2008 at 14:52:48 Pacific
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I haven't looked at the changelogs yet but from what I hear already there isn't much reason to put on service pack 3. If you're on Service Pack 2 I'd just stay there... but that's me.
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Response Number 6
Name: H898 Date: April 11, 2008 at 05:41:03 Pacific
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i trired the cadidate release on virtual pc of xp sp3 and as far as i can tell not much difference mayde sum security fixes but guess thats it.
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Summary: FYI: Microsoft has released betas of XP Service Pack 3 and Vista Service Pack 1. Confirmed by the copies my company is now testing our software on. File size of XP SP3 ~ 330MB Aside from the rollup of...
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