As with Vista SP1, however, subscribers had to fight to get the final build before it hit RTW. MSDN and TechNet subscribers received the final English 544.86MB ISO image a few days ago. Up until then, Microsoft continued to stubbornly say that SP3 would go final in the "first half of 2008." The last beta build Microsoft released to the public was XP SP3 RC2 Refresh, available in English, German, and Japanese. Just over a month after the release of Vista SP1, XP SP3 hit RTM on April 21, 2008, as the rumors predicted. The new Product Activation module allows users to install XP without entering a product key at installation.Kernel mode drivers are capable of hooking into and accessing. Module incorporates cryptographic algorithms in a single module other That drops packets without returning the specified Internet Control Hole" Router Detection helps detect and protect end users from a router Whatever security criteria the corporation has in place. That blocks systems attempting to access a network until they meet NAP is a policy enforcement platform meant for enterprise use.With SP3, Microsoft has back-ported four Vista features to XP, including Network Access Protection (NAP) in order "to help organizations that use Windows XP to take advantage of new features in the Windows Server 2008 operating system." The four features that are no longer Vista-specific are as follows:
Windows Internet Explorer 7 is not included as part of SP3 and still must be downloaded and installed separately (unless it is already installed). Every service pack Microsoft releases is cumulative, meaning it is possible to install (or slipstream) SP3 onto Windows XP SP1/SP2. There are reportedly 1,073 fixes in SP3, as well as various performance improvements.
The service pack contains all previously-released Windows XP updates, including security updates, out-of-band releases, and hotfixes released since Windows XP SP2 hit Microsoft's servers back in August 2004. Although Microsoft has still to confirm the date, SP3 should be rolled out via Automatic Updates on June 10, 2008. There will be no 圆4 version of SP3 released Windows XP 圆4 will be updated at the same time Windows Server 2003 is updated, since it is derived from the codebase of the latter.
According to Microsoft TechNet, the 300MB+ x86 standalone installer (build 5512) will not be available today on the Microsoft Download Center nor on Windows Update. Currently, the final build is only available on the download.windowsupdate domain in the following languages: Chinese (Hong Kong), Czech, English, French, German (Deutsch), Hebrew, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified (Chinese), Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. As per the unofficial timeline, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been uploaded to Microsoft's servers.
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