Microsoft Ships Vista SP1, Windows 2008 Betas

Shakil published 26 Sep 2007, 00:13 in main - 256 views

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Microsoft on Monday shipped a number of important and high-profile pre-release versions of upcoming products to testers. A new version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released to a limited pool of approximately 10,000 testers, while an oddly-named Release Candidate 0 (RC0) version of Windows Server 2008 was released publicly. While Windows 2008 RC0 isn't demonstrably different from a June pre-release drop, the code does include one little gem: The first public version of Microsoft's virtualization solution, codenamed Viridian.

As noted previously, Windows Vista SP1 doesn't include major functional changes that affect end users. Microsoft has instead done a lot of work under the covers to make the system more responsive and reliable in certain situations. The process of resuming from a sleep state is considerably faster, the company reports. Additionally, Microsoft announced that SP1, like previous Windows service packs, will ultimately be delivered to customers via Windows Update. Corporate customers will be able to block the automatic installation of SP1.

News source: Windows IT Pro

Tags: Vista SP1, Windows 2008

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