XP SP3 due next month

25 Mar 2008 | 11:05 GMT

By Andrew Thomas

RECALCITRANT users refusing to get with the programme and move to the brave new world of Vista will be heartened to learn that Service Pack Three for the wizened and wrinkly Windows XP hits the newsstands in April.

TechARP reports that SP3 will appear in two waves, with the Simplified Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish versions appearing in the last two weeks of April and all other variants following three weeks later.

There won't be an integrated SP3 release for Windows XP Media Center Edition or Windows XP Tablet Edition, meaning users will have to buy an old version and apply the service pack later.

SP3 is almost certainly the proverbial it for XP - the OS drops off the reseller and retail list at the end of June and boards the train for the gulag on January 31st next year when system builders will no longer be able to get hold of it. µ

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