Microsoft has posted the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its download site. The move marks the first opportunity for all users of the six-year-old operating system to try out its final upgrade. Previously, several thousand users were given access to test builds of SP3 only by Microsoft's invitation. Update: I just installed the RC on my Windows XP MCE installation, and it all went fairly painless. I haven't noticed anything radically different either yet. 
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What he said. If you keep your system up to date as you should then SP3 really is nothing except the so called performance boot and a few other items not yet mentioned as additions. The performance boost probably is nothing more than a few registry tweaks.
This SP will be nothing like SP2 was it's more or less a rollup as mentioned but yes it should have RDP 6 Client but if you use Windows Update now you'll get that and all the other updates that will be included in one download versus the 100+ that have been released since SP2... Of course this will just make it easier to SLIPSTREAM into your SP2 and then have a single install and already be up to date without having to sit on Windows Update for over an hour...
Edited 2007-12-20 19:29
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2007-07-03
So what's in XP SP3 in a nutshell ?
Security updates? speed improvement ?
Does it have the new RDP 6 client ?