At the end of April 2008, Microsoft will release the final service pack for Windows XP. I set up a Windows XP machine a few weekends ago and after installing Service Pack 2 I had 90+ more updates to do, ugh. I am glad these updates will be all rolled up into Service Pack 3. What I am excited about with SP3 is Network Access Protection (NAP) which allows Windows XP machines to leverage with the NAP features in Windows 2008 Server. This way both Vista and XP machines can leverage NAP on Windows 2008 server.