Vista SP1 beta 1 to launch in mid-July

Monday, 09 July 2007 by Michel Roth

Mary Jo Foley has written an article about the realease of Vista SP1.
Some important improvements in Vista SP1 are:

- File copy performance
- Decreased shutdown time
- Transfer performance
- CPU utilization

"It�s official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft.

Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista � not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end � the company is set to deliver Beta 1 of Vista SP1 in mid-July.

Word (from various sources who asked not to be named) is Microsoft is gearing up to drop Vista SP1 some time the week of July 16. And despite what Microsoft seemingly led Google, the U.S. Department of Justice and other company watchers to believe, the final version of Vista SP1 is sounding like November 2007."

Read more here.