No habrá SP3este año

EL service pack 3 de window s XP saldra hasta el 2007 .

Así lo muestra el "Service Pack Roadmap" de Microsoft, accesible Aquí (o en el título de este post)

Microsoft strongly recommends that all customers install the most current service pack available for your version of Windows. Service packs include security updates, DCRs, and Hotfixes (all updates that resolve issues discovered by customers or by the Microsoft internal testing team). Security Updates and Hotfixes are available on the current version of the service pack and for a limited time on the "immediately preceding service pack" as detailed in the Product Lifecycle Web sites below.

Operating System	Preceding Service Pack	Current Service Pack and Date of Availability	Next Update and Estimated Date of Availability
Windows NT Workstation & Windows NT Server 4.xx	SP5	SP6a and SP6a SRP1 November 30, 1999	Windows NT 4.XX is now out of support and Microsoft is no longer producing public monthly security updates or service packs.2
Windows 2000 Professional & Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter Server3	SP3	SP4 June 26th 2003 Update Rollup #1 for SP4 June 28, 2005	No further updates planned. Customers must be running SP4 to continue to receive monthly security updates. Microsoft recommends updating SP4 machines to Update Rollup #1 (KB891861).
Windows XP Home Edition	SP1	SP2 August 6, 2004	SP3 for Windows XP Home Edition is currently planned for 2H 2007. This date is preliminary.
Windows XP Professional	SP1	SP2 August 6, 2004	SP3 for Windows XP Professional is currently planned for 2H 2007. This date is preliminary.
Windows Server 2003	Original Release	SP1	SP2 H2 2006

Advice for Business Customers

Microsoft recommends that business customers use the above table to plan for the evaluation of new Service Packs as soon as they become available and to allow for the fastest possible transition time, in order to maintain all PCs on current service packs. When preparing for deployment of a service pack it is important to test your mission critical line of business (LOB) applications internally. Microsoft takes great care prior to releasing a service pack to ensure that there are no regressions in the product, and we test with many applications, but it is not possible to test with all LOB applications. Prior to deploying a service pack please consider the following as part of your deployment plan.