It seems
like the long awaited SP3 won't even see the light of the day. All the patch
manpower at Microsoft is now mending the holes in the special sort of Swiss cheese
called Vista. And there are a lot of them.
Service pack is not just a collection of patches and updates, it's more than
that. Whatever was wrong in the initial release can get fixed with the service
pack and sometimes you get support for new things with the new SP.
With a new another child in the house, Microsoft is treating XP like any evil
stepmother would. Abandoning and ignoring Windows XP seems like a wise solution
for Microsoft. Vista needs more attention. It is called business what can you
do.
If you look closely at Microsofts roadmap, you
would see that SP3 for Windows XP was planned for 1H 2008. Microsoft stated that "The date is
preliminary" and brings us much suspicion, and not much to hope for.
Link to windowsitpro.