After a week-long delay to take care of a last-minute compatibility bug, Microsoft Tuesday gave the green light to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). The service pack, undoubtedly the last for the aged ...

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 ...

The appearance and disappearance of a Windows XP installation snafu indicates that Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in XP’s still-unfinished Service Pack 3 (SP3) weeks before it fixed any ...

Q. After reviewing your May 2, 2008, advice regarding SP3 (Windows XP Service Pack 3), when will we (the general public) know it's the right time to install the update? I stopped the automatic install ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After downloading SP 3 and expanding it into its temporary directory, you simply click on it and youre on your way to SP3. Next, you’ll jump through the usual licensing hoops. It’s a good idea to ...