Microsoft Corp. today released the beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, a long-awaited reliability and performance update, to an invite-only group of testers.
Nick White, a program manager on the Vista team, announced on the Microsoft Blog “Today we release the Beta of windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to a private group of Beta testers via connect.microsoft.com,” White said, referring to Microsoft’s beta test site.
Late last month, when Microsoft finally confirmed the beta and partially outlined its schedule, an executive promised that SP1’s first preview would be out before the end of September. Microsoft has invited approximately 12,000 people to test SP1, Mike Nash, the head of Windows client operating system product management, said in a videotaped interview posted on Microsoft’s website.
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