Microsoft has officially confirmed that the final version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 is planned for availability in early(!) 2008.
According to the original statement from the Redmond company, SP3 for Windows XP will drop in the first half of 2008. At the same time, the fast pace of the XP SP3 development process, managed to contradict such a scenario. The third and final service pack for Windows XP was introduced in mid July 2007 in pre-beta stage, concomitantly with the initial development milestone of Windows Vista Service Pack 1.