NAP comes to XP

OK, back from yet another road trip (hopefully the last one of the year). Microsoft is making good on one of their promises around NAP.  They always said that they would retro-fit NAP onto Windows XP.  Frankly with the corporate adoption of Vista being so slow, if NAP was not on XP, NAP would not be of much use at all (even with the Mac and Linux agents available).  Well according to this article in APCMag, the quietly announced release candidate of Service Pack 3 for XP contains the highly anticipated NAP client.

I am downloading it now, but without Server 2008 (also in final public release candidate) or a TCG policy server, there is not much I can do with it. In any event, it does show that Microsoft is making good on its promises around NAP and XP.