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 ...

Now that Windows XP SP3 has been released to the world, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes over at ZDNet Hardware 2.0 blog has done a bunch of application and gaming benchmarks comparing XP SP3 to SP2 and RTM as ...

The last major update to Windows XP is coming closer to its final release date. Microsoft released the latest beta of SP3 to tier-one beta testers late last week and since then, we've come to find out ...

Microsoft Corp. today finally slapped a “Done” sticker on Windows XP Service Pack 3 and pushed it out the door. The designation of SP3 as RTM, short for “release to manufacturing,” wasn’t much of a ...

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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 ...

A week after deciding not to release Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download site as planned, Microsoft has begun pushing the collection of updates and fixes ...

At last the moment you've been waiting for. Microsoft wants to hit your version of Windows with an update, and this time you don't have to go rummaging around the internet to find it: just fire up ...

Microsoft on Wednesday introduced two beta programs for SQL Server 2000 customers, one for Service Pack 3 and the other for 64-bit SQL Server. Company officials also discussed for the first time a ...