Ever the curious sort, I’ve just finished downloading and installing Windows XP Service Pack 3. I’d hoped to find some dramatic new features – or in fact any noticeable changes – however based on what I’ve seen so far this isn’t going to prove the case.
First off, there seems to be a fair amount of confusion as to whether SP3 has been formally released yet, and near as I can tell it hasn’t.
As covered in ZDNet (“UPDATED – XP SP3 available for download from Microsoft“) the release …