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Has MS released an SP4?

by Aug 3, 2011 5:13PM PDT

Windering.... Willy

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No, and it is not likely
by Forum moderator Aug 3, 2011 9:52PM PDT

Support for XP ended in Oct 2010, and no further SPs are expected.

Life cycle End of Support, and Support ends 24 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle

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No
by Aug 3, 2011 11:04PM PDT

No, and it's not just unlikely, Microsoft has already announced long ago that SP3 would be the final one. They might do something similar to what they did with Win2K. Right before it went EOL, they released what was effectively SP5 in all but name. It was a rather large "rollup" type patch which included most of the patches that would have gone into SP5 had they not cancelled it. Odds are they will do the same with XP, as a final send off, after which no further updates will ever be released to the general public.

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