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Vista SP1 set for a November release
10 July 2007 in General | Comments enabled

Mary Jo Foley wrote an interesting article today on ZDnet regarding the imminent release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 beta 1.

It’s interesting for 2 reasons. Obviously the fact that we now have a reasonable idea of when SP1 will be released, ie November (incidently around the same time as Windows Server 2008), but also that Microsoft are planning to release a beta of the service pack. I may be getting a tad long in tooth in terms of computing, but I’m not sure I like the idea of installing a beta (ie, test) version of a service pack!

If you’re wondering what will be included, Mary has posted a handy guide to what general consensus is expecting will be included…

Alterations to Desktop Search to enable 3rd party search systems
Performance tweaks to file copy, shut down, etc
Inproved transfer performance for SD Advanced Direct Memory Access (DMA)
Improvements to Bitlocker Drive Encryption system
Improved success rate for Remote Desktop and MeetingSpace when running behind a firewall

Microsoft are saying that SP1 will focus on fixes rather than new features, so I’m sure more will be included.

I guess we’ll have to wait till November to find out (unless you care to risk installing the beta…)

Read the full article on ZDNet

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