We're all familiar with the ongoing tick-tock of the impending end of XP support on April 8. While many of us have been planning updates, many of you have also insisted that you're staying with XP ...

While Microsoft was supposed to release Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) on April 29, 2008, the service pack only became unofficially available on the download.windowsupdate.com domain. Today, 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 ...

I've just carried out my first Windows XP SP3 install and I'm pleased to report that things went just fine. I downloaded the XP SP3 bits from TechNet (if you're a ...

Just over a month after the release of Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 has hit Release to Manufacturing (RTM) milestone. In other words, it is only available to OEMs. Customers with ...

Update: It appears that Microsoft is continuing to play games with the SP3 release schedule. First they make it available via MSDN, then they tease everyone with general availability (via Windows ...

Editor’s note: The person quoted in this story as “Craig Barth” is actually Randall C. Kennedy, an InfoWorld contributor. Kennedy, who presented himself as the CTO of Devil Mountain Software, no ...

The latest service pack for Windows XP will be pushed to Automatic Update at 7a.m. EDT on July 10 The vague timetable that Microsoft gave Monday for pushing out Windows XP SP3 to most users got ...

While Microsoft is quick to downplay XP when comparing it to Vista, the legacy OS continues to shackle the hearts (and systems) of many. Fortunately, Microsoft just opened up their XP service pack 3 ...

If you’ve been waiting with bated breath for XP SP3, you can start breathing normally now. It changes so little in XP that you won’t even notice it’s there. But hidden and underneath the hood, as I’ll ...

Early beta testing of XP SP3 revealed new security hardening features were put in place, and at least one group of researchers claims Windows Vista SP1 lags behind XP SP3 in tests involving Microsoft ...

Windows XP Service Pack 3 officially hit Microsoft servers this morning, and although it won't be available through Windows Update today, it should be sometime soon. Your desire to stay on the cutting ...