As per the unofficial timeline, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been uploaded to Microsoft's servers. Currently, the final build is only available on the download.windowsupdate domain in the ...

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 ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the release of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3). SP3 brings new capabilities to Microsoft's relational database management system. It adds "performance, ...

I'm trying to install SP3 on a vanilla XP Pro desktop. The desktop has no network access since the drivers I have require a more up to date system to function (nforce2 igp). I no longer have the ...

The good news is that Windows XP Service Pack 3 can make your XP-loaded computer run faster. The bad news is...well, as many of you know by now, there's been a lot of bad news. Or maybe you don't know ...

Next time you wipe your PC's hard drive clean and reinstall Windows with that old installation disc, you don't want to connect your fresh, unpatched and vulnerable system to the internet only to ...

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 ...

Microsoft this week released Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3, which lets IT pros run the mail server on Windows Server 2008 R2. The arrival of the service pack means that organizations don't have ...

According to tests by Devil Mountain Software comparing the release candidates for the last Windows XP service pack and the first Vista service pack, XP SP3 performs twice as fast as Vista SP1 on the ...

Windows XP SP3: Beware the service pack!The first thing that happened after installing Vista SP1 is that it broke my HP printer driver. That wasn't too bad, I fixed that quite easily by uninstalling ...