Other features include Group Policy support for IEEE 802.1X authentication for wired network adapters, Credential Security Support Provider, an updated version of Microsoft Enhanced Cryptographic Provider Module with FIPS 140-2 certifications, and support for SHA-2 signatures in X.509 certificates. Some of the most noteworthy new features added to Windows with the help of SP3 are black hole router detection and support for NAP (Network Access Protection). The third installment of Windows XP service packs can be deployed with relative ease thanks to a straightforward installer, which is cumulative, meaning that users will be able to bring the latest improvements over from just about any pre-SP3 version of Windows XP, on all variations such as XP Home Edition, and XP Media Center Edition. Last week, Microsoft postponed offering XP SP3 to the general Windows-using public, saying that it first needed to issue a fix for a bug in the retail point-of-sale software it sells.Released on 21, 2008, the Windows XP Service Pack 3, or SP3 for short, comes with no visual changes and lots of under-the-hood improvements over its precursor, the SP2, as well over the standalone version of Windows XP. On April 21, the company announced that it had finished the service pack but would not release it to subscribers. Paying subscribers of the TechNet Plus and MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) services have been able to download Windows XP SP3 for about two weeks, after Microsoft reversed course and said it would make the upgrade available. Only image files for the Chinese-Simplified, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese-Brazil and Spanish versions of XP SP3 have been added to the two services' download sections, Keroack said. "Microsoft is pleased to make available integrated retail and volume license installs of Windows XP SP3, to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers," Chris Keroack, the company's XP SP3 release manager, said in a message posted to the TechNet support newsgroup late Friday.
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