Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1
August 7th, 2007
Note: Yes we’ve been away - we’ve either been very (extremely) busy and/or been on holiday. Sorry about the gaps, but it’s hard juggling a full working life and maintaining this and every other bloody blog in the Universe.
OK so this week has seen the release to a small group of testers (including myself, HA!) of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 beta. It’s around 550MB in size and seems to be only available for the x86 processor (at the moment…). Indeed, the build string as pointed out on a number of websites is 6001.16549(longhorn_sp1beta1.070628-1825). There are two kinds of testers - random ones selected from the Windows Vista beta of which have filed an extraordinary amount of bugs during the beta, and a number of participants from the Visual Studio 2008 beta so that certain things can be tested, of which Vista SP1 being a prerequisite.
Also around the same time, Windows XP Service Pack 3 being around 330MB in size, of which we don’t have access to I’m saddened to say, fixes around 900 bugs and problems with the existing Service Pack 2. The build string is 5.1.2600.3180 (xpsp.070718-2058) - according to Bink, people seem to think that the timing of these two beta’s being released, is that the final versions of the products will be released simultaneously.
From working at Microsoft myself - I can tell you, this is unlikely, as target dates are very rarely met.
Some sources: Bink.nu
August 8th, 2007 at 4:33 am
It’s ok. I understand you guys (more than one person?) have real lives.
“From working at Microsoft myself - I can tell you, this is unlikely, as target dates are very rarely met.”
- That’s really sad. Doesn’t sound like Microsoft employees can believe in their company. What kind of thing is that?
Microsoft should make target dates if they can’t keep it. It’s like making promises, but skipping out all the time. What kind of good company would do that?
August 8th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Ex-employee lol. I saw the light… I’m still young, looking for alternative ventures.
I’ll tell you this one - Vista was *deliberately* delayed because Paul Thurrott actually finally got something right for once, so they stalled the entire release. 100% fact