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Windows XP Service Pack 3 is currently in development. It will be released after Windows Vista has been finished; presently, Microsoft's web site indicates a "preliminary" release date of "2nd half 2007" for Service Pack 3. However, if Windows Vista gets delayed further then this may well mean service pack 3 also gets delayed.^[17] Service Pack 3 may include Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media Player 11, and many other changes, but Microsoft has not made any official statement on feature sets. It is likely that many of the features added with service pack 3 will be features from Vista, backported to work with XP after its final release.

A document^[18] on Microsoft's web site suggests that Service Pack 3 will include additional support for doing true "per-user" application installing. Another page^[19] suggests improvements to managing the list of "hidden" wireless networks.

A site titled The Hotfix has been reported as keeping an up-to-date list of downloadable hotfixes that will be included in XP Service Pack 3. Many of the hotfixes on the site have not yet been officially released by Microsoft and users have been warned to not install them all, but many of the fixes have been known to solve specific problems in XP that SP3 will eventually address in 2007.