April Release for Windows XP SP3 RTM?

The Windows XP Service Pack 3 will be released to manufacturing (RTM process) for the first time this year in April, according to the website of ARP technology. Microsoft has not said that at this point, to confirm the schedule. The company still official estimates, the RTM process will be available in the first half of 2008.

Technology ARP website also forecast released this week, will occur in two waves, and the second wave occurred 21 days after the date of April. There is no specific source was cited as a reference. The unknown author of the article also claimed that they had broken the story on the release of the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RTM technology, it is officially announced by Microsoft on February 4.

And Windows Vista is Microsofts flagship operating system as the demand for Windows XP refused rare. Windows XP signs of increased sales, even as sales decline in Vista, leading Microsoft to expand Windows XP permission. The company even cut to facilitate a new PC buyers.

The scheme of Windows XP SP3 RTM process will include previously released features, in the past the release of XP, with a couple of improvement. It will include network access protection, to support the new features in Windows Server operating systems in 2008. So will also be improved way to tell if the router discarded packets, in accordance with Microsofts White Paper (pdf) a keynote address.

Windows XP SP3 of the RTM process will also improve performance. A blog that release candidate version of Windows XP SP3 in that 10% of the performance advantages of Windows XP SP2.

Awaited Windows XP SP3 the RTM process, will see a early release is not unprecedented. In 2007, Microsoft said, RTM technology, will occur in the end of the year. However, the press release did not happen, and Microsoft cancelled misunderstanding, is a "Xizi." Support Windows XP come to an end eventually. Mainstream support for the product is scheduled to end in April of 2009. In order to expand the support, the end date is hanging in April of 2014.

Currently, the Windows XP sp 3 can be downloaded as a candidate Version 2 products.