XP and Vista SP Beta release
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 by PPV
Microsoft will roll out the beta versions of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 to selected testers as reported here.
So there you go. If you want to be "one" of the moderate size audience and desperately want to beta test the SP, subscribe to MSDN. If you're just like me - an average PC user - wait till next year. ^-^
Vista SP1 will be entering beta "in a few weeks" and will be "released to a moderate size audience". Interestingly, this audience does not include standard MSDN and Technet subscribers. The download is around 50MB for the 32-bit version. The full release is expected, the Vole sayeth, in the first quarter of 2008.
As for XP SP3, the news is rather less exciting. The full thing is scheduled, rather vaguely, for the first half of 2008. The service pack is basically a "roll up of all the hot fixes and patches including security updates, out of band releases and hotfixes".
So there you go. If you want to be "one" of the moderate size audience and desperately want to beta test the SP, subscribe to MSDN. If you're just like me - an average PC user - wait till next year. ^-^
