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Windows 7 for XP ProfessionalsUpdating Support Skills from XP to Windows 7by Bink.nu's Raymond Comvalius
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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.
(November 2007 is also the release-to-manufacturing target for Windows Server 2008, sources say. Microsoft won’t provide an RTM date for Windows Server 2008, other than to say it is still on track to RTM before the end of 2007.)
Since MS has started to use one codebase for Windows more now. It's only natural that Vista SP1 will be ahead of XPSP3. Because any changes/fixes they've done to Windows Server 2k8 apply to Vista as well.
We'll get XP SP3, but it won't do much for people. If you've been keeping up with patches already, at the most we'll get a few bug fixes here and there, and any unimportant patches not pushed out with windows update.
I'm in no rush for XP SP3 really. If all goes well, and I have a new PC later this year, I'll be moving to Vista fully.