Windows XP SP3 Patch now available to MSDN Subscribers - through Top Downloads list

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Windows XP SP3 Released to MSDN Subscribers - Soon the World!

David Hayden - Florida .NET Developer - C# and SQL Server — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:57:27 GMT

I have not made the move to Windows Vista, so I sure do appreciate Windows XP SP3 to avoid the 80 to 90 Security Updates one needs to install after installing Windows XP SP2.

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James — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:19:39 GMT

Any news on symbols or check/debug availability? We are software developers, after all...

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Eric — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:29:54 GMT

What a wonderful way to get the download. IE7 just pops back to the Top Downloads page after selecting the SP3 download. I actually had to download it in FireFox to get the Link to work. I suspect the Akamai (sp?) tool is to fault, but for MS to pick a tool that doesn't work with IE.... Shame... But thanks for getting the download out early.

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Bill Bradley — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:40:56 GMT

Just downloaded the SP3 ISO. How come the FAQ.HTM at the root of the CD refers to SP2?

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Richard Henley — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:10:48 GMT

Well if it worked. That would be great.

Clicking the link just keeps returning to the Top Downloads link. Even with the Akami activex control installed. IE7 !

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markvt — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:21:45 GMT

I still see only english and hebrew when are the other languages coming online ???

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SubscriptionsBlogger2 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:05:51 GMT

In the Top Downloads list, you will only see your local language(s) - based on your Ship To address; and English. As was noted in the post, broader availability of all languages is coming soon.

As far as clicking on the link and having the Top Downloads list come back, hopefully you discovered that the Save As dialog box sometimes hides behind other windows and doesn't appear in the task tray. I have asked Akamai about that behaviour as they had changed in earlier so it stopped doing that.

As far as the FAQ referencing SP2 rather than SP3, we alerted the release team about this and they told us it was 'by design". It didn't make sense to me either.

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markvt — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:06:52 GMT

Could someone from microsoft please explain me why i see hebrew then ? I'm from holland and my profile also states holland. My ship to is to holland as far as i can check.

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mark — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:31:54 GMT

I didn't change anything and by miracle today there is the dutch sp3 there aswell as the english and hebrew. I still don't understand why the hebrew is there :)

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Paul Coddington — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:51:52 GMT

Can you provide some additional information to your announcement?

Those of us with MUI installations of XP are wondering if the Service Pack as provided here covers them, or if we are waiting for another release further down the track as was the case with Vista.

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Paulo — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:19:16 GMT

In IE 7 it DOES NOT work. But in Firefox it works OK.

What I get in IE: (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx)

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Cathy — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:32:31 GMT

I downloaded this and it installed SP2 again it appears and as another user stated the faq refers to SP2? When Can we download SP3 as the following article states: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3281962&SiteID=17

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SubscriptionsBlogger2 — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:17:22 GMT

It is SP3 that you downloaded. As noted above, in a few places there are references to SP2 and those are apparently "by design"

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Richard Henley — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:19:06 GMT

While IE7 still doesn't work today, other browsers will. As Paulo mentions.

I also don't understand why SP3 is not availble in downloads via that snazzy webpage download tool - which I still don't like because it's appears to be so limiting.

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Daneil — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:51:08 GMT

Why isn't there an integraded Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 ISO build availble at http://licensing.microsoft.com ????

The ISO for XP Professional with Service Pack 2 is the most recent ISO build available for download there. Does this mean that Service Pack 3 still isn't actually being supported for Software Assurance users?

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mans — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:49:10 GMT

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!