Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Feb 2008 16:14 UTC
Following the announcement earlier this week that Vista Service Pack 1 had been shipped to manufacturing, Microsoft today confirmed that it seeded another build of Windows XP SP3 to a closed set of testers. "Yesterday, we released Windows XP SP3 RC 2 to private beta testers," a Microsoft spokeswoman said in an e-mail. "This release catches the build up on previously released hot fixes and responds to critical feedback from previous betas."
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2006-02-11
There are more than just current updates rolled together. There are some new security features backported from Vista like blackhole router detection, the new product activation system from Vista, and of course they have to test and make sure all of the "rolled up" patches install properly and don't break anything. I believe they also include a lot of patches that aren't available on Windows Update (the kinds you would have to specifically request from them before now).