Mar 19

Microsoft Confirms that the Leaked XP SP3 Build 5503 Is an Official Release

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Microsoft has confirmed that the leaked Windows XP Service Pack 3 Build 5503 is an official release. The Redmond company had been mute on the development of XP SP3 following the delivery of Release Candidate 2 build 3311.

In this context, when XP SP3 Build 5503 started to pop out on torrent trackers and on warez websites there was a lot of speculation that the release was in fact a fake. First of all, the jump from build 3311 all the way to 5503 pointed to the fact that the latest build could not come from Microsoft. Especially as the Redmond company said nothing on the matter.

Well, this is no longer the case. I contacted Microsoft and asked whether XP SP3 Build 5503 was an official release. “The XP SP3 5503 build was a minor interim build released to address one specific issue for a subset of private beta testers,” revealed a Microsoft spokesperson in an email to Softpedia. And it looks like I wasn’t the only one who asked since Mary Jo Foley got the same official response to a similar inquiry (via WinBeta).