by Darren Murph, posted Apr 15th 2008 at 9:03PM

Though we originally expected (read: hoped) that Microsoft would dish out
Service Pack 3 for Windows XP
late last month, it seems the deed may actually get done before May dawns. According to an "internal schedule" fetched over at
Neowin, OEMs, volume license, Connect, MSDN and TechNet subscribers will have access to the update on April 21st, while most average joes / janes won't notice it until April 29th when it hits the Microsoft / Windows Update download center. For folks too busy carrying on to worry over which SP their XP is running, they could very well overlook the automatic update scheduled to land on June 10th. (Re)mark your calendars, won't you?