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Title: Windows Vista SP1 Released To Small Group Post by: Tanya on August 06, 2007, 12:38:34 PM Windows Vista SP1 Released To Small Group
As Mary Jo Foley forecasted, a Windows Vista SP1 drop was made in mid-July. We're hearing, however, the drop was made to a small group of random testers for "pre-beta" testing. Pre-beta testing is usually conducted to test software that is more mature than a first-stab, annihilate-your-machine alpha (VS2008 anyone?) but doesn't quite implement all the required functionalities to be labeled a true beta. The service pack comes labeled with a build string matching its recently released WDK brother and smells of Server 2008 kernel, which is A Good Thing? -- 6001.16549(longhorn_sp1beta1.070628-1825). (Thanks C.) Queried Microsoft and beta participants are denying the program's existence, as expected. We'll have to suffer with our malfunctioning Windows Vista installs for just a tad longerContinue At Source Continue to this article at Bink.nu http://bink.nu/Article10690.bink |