Want To Test Vista Sp1? Anyone Can, Starting Next Week

[magiccode9 0]

Actually, I still not trusted that microsoft could release it Windows Vista SP1 on scheduled. But ms might be use much more resources to finish it due
to the next or coming developing platform that was build on top of Vista. It may included the .Net Framework 3.5 and it's new technology VPS, a commonly
used technology that on most platform for consolidation server system and is the first time on Windows.

So, What do you think `how much resource(s)` that it could reduced with it's system requirement will led you switched your main stream
operation system to it ? Just 10% ? more than 30% ? or half-half or nothing because it's Evil ...

As you heard here last week, Microsoft is making the Release Candidate (RC) test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 available to a private group of testers this week and to the general public the week of December 10.
Microsoft confirmed its RC rollout plans on December 5. Today, Wednesday, the company made the Vista SP1 RC bits available via Microsoft Connect to the same 15,000 testers it provided with the RC preview. On December 6, Thursday, Microsoft plans to make the Vista SP1 RC bits available on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and TechNet, officials said. And next week, the week of the 10th, Microsoft plans to make the Vista SP1 RC build available to anyone interested in downloading it from the Microsoft Download site.

Microsoft is still on track to deliver the final SP1 bits in the first calendar quarter of 2008, officials said.

Vista SP1 includes security, performance and reliability updates. Microsoft is emphasizing that in spite of the security updates, Vista SP1 wont break applications on anywhere near the scale that Windows XP Service Pack 2 did when it was released in 2004.

David Zipkin, Senior Product Manager with Windows Client, said Microsoft has managed to shrink significantly the size of the standalone installation packages for Vista SP1 since the company made a beta of the service pack available this summer. As itemized on the Windows Vista Team Blog, Microsoft has cut the size of the installer package between 37 percent (for the five-language pack) to 58 percent (for the package encompassing all languages). Microsoft also has cut back significantly the amount of disc space needed for SP1.

The size of the SP1 has been one of the major points of criticm by testers of the early builds of the service pack.

Zipkin uncharacteristically shared a bit of advance information about Microsofts rollout plans for the final SP1 build.

Microsoft plans to release Vista SP1 in two waves: Vista SP1 for Microsofts five primary languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese) shortly after the product is released to manufacturing. Eight to 12 weeks later, it will roll out the final SP1 installers for all languages, Zipkin said.

Microsoft is planning to make available, as it did with Windows XP SP2 and other Windows releases, a blocking tool that administrators can use to prevent Windows Vista SP1 from being pushed onto users desktops before they have tested sufficiently the update.

[Saint_Michael 3]

I only can imagine how many pirated versions will be out the moment they release the test software, heck I will be waiting next year for a stable release because I am not going to risk a re-installation because of bugs and junk. However, I am got to be jumping around for SP3 just to see how great it is and stuff, and enjoy installation after I most likely resinstall XP for the 3rd time just to keep it clean when I install SP3 because who knows what it will do to the software that installed and stuff.

I ment 3rd time since my first re-installation will happen in a couple of weeks once classes end

Edited December 6, 2007 by Saint_Michael (see edit history)

[dre 0]

I only can imagine how many pirated versions will be out the moment they release the test software

Some people just don't like paying $400 for something that cost 15 cents to make. You wont be finding Vista in any form in my computer.

for the 4rd time

Pretty sure you mean 4th Edited December 6, 2007 by dre (see edit history)