Vista SP1: Release Candidate test build goes to 15,000 testers
Summary: On November 14, Microsoft released a new test build of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 -- designated the SP1 Release Candiate (RC) Preview -- to a slightly expanded group of 15,000 pre-selected testers. Still no update on when Microsoft plans to make an SP1 test build available more broadly via MSDN or other channels.
Microsoft has delivered yet another test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 to testers.
On November 14, the new build -- designated the SP1 Release Candiate (RC) Preview -- went to a slightly expanded group of 15,000 pre-selected testers. Microsoft made a first public beta of Vista SP1 available to 12,000 testers in September. The new build, No. 6001.17042, can be downloaded by invited testers from Microsoft's private Connect test site.
Microsoft has been making builds of Vista SP1 available to progressively larger groups of testers since earlier this spring. The company has been dangling the promise of making a test build Vista SP1 available more broadly, first as a semi-public build downloadable by Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) members, and ultimately, by any interested parties. Microsoft posted a note to MSDN two weeks ago announcing avaiablility of a Vista SP1 beta, but later pulled the note and apologized for the false alarm.
As of November 14, Microsoft officials declined to say when broader, more public SP1 builds would hit.
Microsoft is continuing to promise delivery of Vista SP1 for the first calendar quarter of 2008. SP1 will be a rollup of fixes and updates that the company has pushed out via Windows Update since releasing Vista to manufacturing last fall. SP1 also will include support for new standards and a couple of other minor new "features."
As one Softie recently said: "Freaking release SP1 already."
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Any news on the price of Vista SP1?
Any news on the price of Vista SP1?
You guys missed his poor attempt at being Mike Cox...
Service Packs from Microsoft are FREE!
Luckily
Less than your therapy...
:-P
Still angry?
Some call it a data loss bug, others believe it's a secret "expand your drive space" feature.
I'm not the one
I find it funny and rather sad that so many who love to claim Apple is so insignificant and flawed have this sick need to always post mindless and hate filled rants.
"Methinks thou doth protest too much..."
I just sit back and watch you guys continue to make fools of yourselves while Apple generally coasts happily and successfully along.
Really rots your socks doesn't it :-)
...
Yes, you are.
RE: Vista SP1: Release Candidate test build goes to 15,000 testers
I think SP1 will be an anti-climax
anti climax
Anti-Climatic
Vista SP1 will be anticlimax
Will ease corporate minds
Funny thing is
I told a client i was building a new box for that he should try it, and he flat out refused even though all of the issues he quoted to me were not real issues for him.
people are just stupid.
RE: Vista SP1: Release Candidate test build goes to 15,000 testers
Vista SP1 Beta Working Very Well
Well hot dang! Whoop-dee-dooooo!
Isn't that what it's supposed to do?
Kudos to Microsoft for doing a tiny
bit of what they should have done a
year ago. Although it would have been
difficult to produce an SP1 before
the OS escape....er.. I meant was
released.
Now if they'll just be gentle when
they stick the WGA to you and don't
sneak too many secret updates (and
who knows what else?) on your
computer, don't flip the control
switches on in their DRM, maintain
and/or repair their activation
servers so they work properly, reduce
the price of their software to no
more than 3 or 4 times what they
charge in Nigeria, and teach some of
their Indians to speak English well
enough to understand and be
understood, they just might......
never mind.... enough daydreaming
today....
SP's have always been free, we're all Beta testers for M$
Just like XP when it first came out, Vista will eventually get worked out, but I bet even after the long delayed SP1, Vista will merely be one beta build closer to what it should have been before Vista was du(m)ped onto the public.
Turn off the Aero eye candy, put everything in classic win2000 view, waste much time making sure all your installed 3rd party software still works, put up with the endless UAC popups, until you finally shut it off, and then your right back to where you started...
RE: Vista SP1: Release Candidate test build goes to 15,000 testers