Today, D. Spencer Hines made these interesting comments ...

More Precisely & Succinctly:

"SP3 for Windows XP Professional is currently planned for 1H
CY2008. This date is preliminary."

Note The TWO Caveats -- "currently planned for" and
"preliminary".

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/servicepacks.mspx

Astute weasel-wording.

My congratulations to the writers. Trap-door escape hatches
galore.

Spence, notice also that the wording is in tiny letters and not
highlighted nor is there a link to go to for more info. MS will
decide to do an SP3 for only one of two reasons: 1) it costs less
than continuing HUNDREDS of individual patches or 2) Vista flops.
2) isn't all that likely, but the real thing is a combo of both.
I know of NO companies who will pre-announce future product
offerings or some sort of warrenty that far ahead.

DSH
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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in
message ...

HEMI-Powered wrote:

It is doubtful to me that there will be an SP3, as Vista
replaces any major maintence [sic] releases of XP. But, I
would expect MS to support XP, SP1 and SP2 indefinitely for
critical updates and security patches, but not features or
other kinds of bugs.


There are no guarantees of course, but Microsoft *is*
planning a Windows XP SP3. It's currently planned for for
[sic] the first half of next year. See
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lif...vicepacks.mspx

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