XP Service Pack 3 problems require a news update
By
Brian Livingston
We usually skip publication on any 5th Thursdays that come around (such as May 29), but serious problems involving Service Pack 3 for Windows XP have made us work overtime to bring you today's special report.
Contributing editor Susan Bradley has written an out-of-cycle
Patch Watch column
specifically designed to bring you the facts. She encourages you today (as she's stated in previous columns) to wait on installing XP SP3 if you don't have some urgent need for it.
Susan will follow up on Microsoft's headaches with XP SP3 in her regular columns in the coming weeks. We ordinarily publish her reports twice a month: in the same week as Patch Tuesday and two weeks thereafter. Her findings normally appear in our paid content, but SP3's newly reported problems are severe enough that we're publishing Susan's material as free content today.
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Brian Livingston is editorial director of WindowsSecrets.com and the co-author of Windows Vista Secrets and 10 other books.
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