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Windows XP SP3 RTM Schedule & Updates!
Posted by Sumeeth Evans March 22, 2008 5:35 PM with 7 comment(s)
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After we broke the story on the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, we now have updated news and more details of the long-awaited Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. Microsoft has also made some changes to when and how Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be released. Here are the details...

  1. Windows XP Service Pack 3 will contain hotfixes and updates released since Windows XP SP2. It will also include an expanded set of product keys for Windows XP Professional that were originally introduced in Windows XP SP2c.
     
  2. Microsoft clarified that there will not be any integrated SP3 release for Windows XP Media Center Edition or Windows XP Tablet Edition. That means you won't be able to buy or obtain a complete Windows XP Media Center Edition / Tablet Edition SP3 CD. In addition, users of Windows XP Media Center Edition or Windows XP Tablet Edition will only be able to update to Service Pack 3 through Windows Update.
     
  3. All languages will now be released in two waves. Earlier, Microsoft said that languages support for Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be released in three waves. What was previously identified as wave 2 and 3 have now been combined into a single wave 2.
     
  4. Microsoft has also delayed RTM for Windows XP Service Pack 3 to provide sufficient time to incorporate feedback from the beta testers. (In other words, they can't make their original deadline!)

Due to the changes in language releases and Windows XP SP3 RTM's release, here's the updated schedule.

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noel-usr56 said:

NICE!  WinXP SP3 RTM coming soon.  We'll wait another month for it to be ready.

March 22, 2008 9:33 PM
 

xpclient said:

I'm very concerned about point #2. Does this now mean that you cannot slipstream XPMCE or XPTPC? What about deployment of these OSes then?

March 23, 2008 12:02 PM
 

mtg said:

I have several tablets in my organization. That's going to stink if I can't slipstream. It's really going to stink if the only I can get SP3 is to download it from Microsoft Update on every one.

March 23, 2008 9:51 PM
 

gisabun said:

Correction to the article: SP3 incorporates all updates from the initial release of XP to sometime early this year.

Like Vista, you can install XP SP3 integrated/slipstream as a trial for 30 [?] days without a serial number.

March 24, 2008 1:53 PM
 

raitchison said:

I'm somewhat concerned that I would be able to obtain integrated media for Tablet Edition of XP, perhaps I can build it myself.

I thought that Tablet (as well as media center) edition was just an extra install of files after the installation of Windows,  will those extra component refuse to install on a SP3 system?  Will there be any instability?

It seems like as a worst case scenario we could build a fresh image using XP Tablet Edition SP2, install SP3 using windows update and then sysprep it to make our new image.  I know that an installed SP is not nearly as nice as  integrated SP but I gotta think that manually installing SP3 has to be better than installing 60+ hotfixes as we have to today.

March 24, 2008 5:58 PM
 

schwit said:

Is  IE7 integrated into sp3?

March 25, 2008 3:04 AM
 

roirraW "edor" ehT said:

No, I don't believe it is.  Neither is WMP 11.

April 16, 2008 12:28 AM
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