You’ll soon be able to join the ranks of happy XP owners and download SP3 online. If you don’t want to wait for the updater to pick it up you can apparently download it here as well. It might be a horrible virus called Vista, though, so be afraid. Just kidding.
SP3 has been available for at least a week as a direct download. I loaded it last weekend and it seems to do nothing.
that means its working
uh…..looks like they aren’t doing the public release just quite yet after all.
though i hear it is still on msdn and technet (if you have subscriptions & access to their downloads)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1368&tag=nl.e589