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Saturday, December 22, 2007

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate Out

Microsoft posted the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its download site but warns that SP3 isn't for everyone. XP SP3 will not be soon added to Windows Update. In fact, SP3 wouldn't be offered to users via Microsoft's update service before the service pack is finished next year.

Microsoft also says Windows XP SP3 does not bring significant portions of Windows Vista functionality to Windows XP. According to a Florida performance testing software developer, XP SP3 is not only 10% faster than XP SP2, but more than twice as fast as Vista SP1.

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