Microsoft announces Vista SP1 Beta-Official Post Vista News Discuss Microsoft announces Vista SP1 Beta-Official Post in the Windows Vista forums; Microsoft announces Vista SP1 Beta 30th August 2007 James Bannan Microsoft, Vista, Windows This week, the Microsoft Windows Vista Team announced details about the official beta of Vista Service Pack ...

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Microsoft announces Vista SP1 Beta
30th August 2007 James Bannan Microsoft, Vista, Windows
This week, the Microsoft Windows Vista Team announced details about the official beta of Vista Service Pack 1. - - SNIP - -

All the available technical detail is in the SP1 Beta Whitepaper, but here’s a summary or what to expect:

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/wi...hitepaper.aspx - - SNIP - - Now I love this next snippet - -

Microsoft anticipate that SP1 Beta will be released to the public within a few weeks, and then a later SP1 pre-release will be made available to testers via MSDN and TechNet subscribers (and via BitTorrent for everyone else).

Now that is nice for them to notify -everyone else.
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but the Vista experience so far hasn’t been bad at all, and it’s probable that by the time SP1 is released, a fully-patched Vista machine will be largely indistinguishable from a brand-new SP1 system.

Reading between the lines... Legit copies that can Validate and have AUTOUPDATES will have the same as SP1 (before/same time) SP1 is Officially released.