Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate

[Windows XP Service Pack 3] After letting a few beta test the early version, Microsoft has announced that they’re making the latest service pack for Windows XP available for everyone to download.

A company spokeswoman stated that the release candidate would be found at the Microsoft Download Center later tonight. Windows XP Service Pack 3’s release candidate will be a 580 meg download.

For those of you who’ll be downloading this, don’t forget that it’s not the final version and it will probably be unstable for some or contain a few bugs. The final version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 is scheduled for release in 2008.

The update’s size when downloaded from the Windows Update service will be only 70 megs, although it’s unclear when the release candidate will be added to the update service.

How many of you will be downloading this?

High five to Gregg Keizer.

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5 Responses to “Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate”

1
katalystcz
December 20th, 2007 00:25

nice post..but I thinkg I’m going to wait for the final version.
2
Madhur Kapoor
December 20th, 2007 04:46

I will also be waiting for a final version.

Madhur Kapoor’s last blog post..EA announces Tiberium, a First Person Shooter
3
Brown Baron
December 21st, 2007 16:34

Yeah, the final version should contain less bugs hehehe
4
Stephen Domina
March 16th, 2008 11:12

I tried it, three times!
I ran thru the process, got to a point and I got an error - Access Denied.” Went to the safe mode, and got 3/4 thru the installation process, and SHAZAMM! Same error. Called Dell, and they said I had to do a PC Restore. Not even. Too many files to have to re-install for a not certifiably error-proof release.
Long story short, I too will wait (some more).
5
Tasarim
May 11th, 2008 09:19

there will be lots of bugs I think, microsoft patching for old patch patch patch patch… that goes like that

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