Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1 pre-betas in hands of testers

Stan Beer
Thursday, 09 August 2007 11:08

Business IT - Technology

Microsoft has released pre-beta versions of service packs for Windows XP and Vista to a select group of testers. The news of pre-beta XP SP3 and Vista SP1 follows the confirmed release of two Vista updates previously mentioned on iTWire aimed at fixing performance and reliability issues of Microsoft's new operating system.

Posts to Windows beta watching site, Winbeta , give details of the pre-beta service pack releases, with Vista SP1 given to testers in mid-July and XP SP3 dropped off to testers in early August.

According to a post on Winbeta, XP SP3 contains fixes for more than 900 reported problems not addressed in XP SP2.

The good news for Vista users is that Vista SP1 has been scheduled for release by Microsoft before the end of the year. The bad news for XP users is that the long overdue XP SP3 will not be available until sometime in the first half of 2008.