Its not that unofficial one that fools people to be real service pack. The official Service Pack 3 Beta is officially here now. As Microsoft said it will say bye bye to Windows XP in 2008 to promote Windows Vista, so this is the last official Service Pack for Windows XP.
This release, also shipped as windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe, is 334.2 megabytes and has been made available to tier-one Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 beta testers
It contains only patches and hotfixes most of them backported from Windows Vista:
- New Windows Product Activation model: no need to enter product key during setup.
- Network Access Protection modules and policies have been brought to XP after being one of the more-well-received features in Windows Vista.
- New Microsoft Kernel Mode Cryptographic Module - the Windows XP SP3 kernel now includes an entire module that provides easy access to multiple cryptographic algorithms and is available for use in kernel-mode drivers and services.
- New “Black Hole Router” detection - Windows XP SP3 can detect and protect against rogue routers that are discarding data.
Windows XP SP3 is compatible with all versions of Windows x86, included Embedded, Fundamentals, Start, Professional, Media Center, and Home Editions.
Windows XP SP3 now contains 1,073 patches/hotfixes, not including those in previous service packs. Of the 1,073 included updates, 114 are for security-related issues. The remainder are updates to performance & reliability, bugfixes, improvements to kernel-mode driver modules, and many BSOD fixes.
As with Service Pack 2, these include both previously publicly-available updates (whether through support.microsoft.com or via Windows Update) as well as any and all privately-redistributed updates for select customers or partners with specific problems/scenarios
Reference:
NeoSmart blog
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