"Tiberius" <James@tiberius.kirk> wrote in message
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> There were rumors that perhaps there would never be a sp3[/color]

You believe rumors? If not then SP3 has always been planned for release.
If so then that explains a few things.

Also, you claim to have posted this info in some effort to prove that XP can
be MORE STABLE (?) thus a WANT to stay with XP? SP3 will do nothing to make
XP more stable or any better then it already is. It's just a compilation of
what is already available. SP3 will mostly benefit IT professionals so they
can re-install XP without a large sum of updates to follow.