Windows XP SP2 is set for retirement July 12 of this year. Retirement means no more security patches for vulnerabilities, and it’s time to apply XP SP3 (expiring in 2014) or upgrade to Windows 7. In ...

Microsoft on Tuesday delivered its last service pack for Office 2007. Service Pack 3 (SP3), which weighs in at 351MB, was posted to Microsoft’s download center yesterday, and has begun appearing as an ...

Update: It appears that Microsoft is continuing to play games with the SP3 release schedule. First they make it available via MSDN, then they tease everyone with general availability (via Windows ...

As per the unofficial timeline, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been uploaded to Microsoft's servers. Currently, the final build is only available on the download.windowsupdate domain in the ...

If I try to install it on an XP SP3 machine, it tells me Windows is not up to date, and directs me to Windows Update. I've tried this on several machines (and a couple VMs) with consistent results ...

The good news is that Windows XP Service Pack 3 can make your XP-loaded computer run faster. The bad news is...well, as many of you know by now, there's been a lot of bad news. Or maybe you don't know ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the release of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3). SP3 brings new capabilities to Microsoft's relational database management system. It adds "performance, ...

According to tests by Devil Mountain Software comparing the release candidates for the last Windows XP service pack and the first Vista service pack, XP SP3 performs twice as fast as Vista SP1 on the ...

Microsoft this week released Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3, which lets IT pros run the mail server on Windows Server 2008 R2. The arrival of the service pack means that organizations don't have ...