Windows XP SP2 is set for retirement July 12 of this year. Retirement means no more security patches for vulnerabilities, and it’s time to apply XP SP3 (expiring in 2014) or upgrade to Windows 7. In ...

For those of you still running Windows XP, with Service Pack 2, security updates are no longer provided by Microsoft, in their attempt to get people to "upgrade" to Windows 7. SP3, while it has some ...

The official position out of Microsoft on Windows XP Service Pack 3 is, Yes we're working on SP3, and stop asking about it. "We will be releasing another service pack for XP over the course of the ...

With Windows XP SP2 support ending in three weeks, a new report highlights the security risks that come with running an unsupported service pack. If your business is still running Service Pack 2 of ...

“Microsoft security bulletin MS08-030 does not fully address the vulnerability discussed in the security bulletin for these versions [SP2, SP3],” Christopher Budd, security response communications ...

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 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 ...