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If you’ve been anxiously waiting for Windows XP Service Pack 3 to be available, then your wait should be over by April 29th. These are the dates set by Microsoft for SP3:

• April 14, 2008: Support is available for the release version of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP
• April 21, 2008: Original Equipment Manufacturers, Volume License, Connect, and MSDN and TechNet subscribers
• April 29, 2008: Microsoft Update, Windows Update, Download Center
• June 10, 2008: Automatic Updates

There you have it! OEMs, License Customers, MSDN and TechNet subscribers will get XP SP3 on April 21. Rests for us have to wait till April 29th for the SP3 to be available on Microsoft Download Center. Like always, automatic updates are delayed by over a month.

But since TechNet and MSDN subscribers get their hands on SP3 a week before we do, there is a possibility that SP3 might leak before the actual release date