Loading ...Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate Now Available To Public
One feature should prove popular with corporate IT managers, who often need to oversee hundreds, or even thousands, of operating system installations.
Microsoft has released to the public a near-final version of a major update to its Windows XP operating system.
As of Wednesday, the ‘Release Candidate’ for Windows XP Service Pack 3 was available as a 336 Mbyte download from Microsoft’s Web site. The software had previously been available only to participants in Microsoft’s official test programs.
Software vendors usually issue a release candidate when they’re close to producing a final version of a product or update. It provides a last chance for users to weigh in before a final version is released to manufacturing.
Microsoft says it considers the Release Candidate for Windows XP SP3 to be trial software and warns users to download with caution — and at their own risk. “Microsoft does not recommend installing this software on primary or mission critical systems,” the company states on its Web site.
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So, why are they coming out with SP3? What is up with that??