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June 19, 2007 7:39 PM PDT

Beta of Vista SP1 coming this year

by Ina Fried

It's been an incredibly busy evening in Microsoft-land, with news Tuesday of the company's agreement to change desktop search in Vista and its flip-flop on virtualization licensing changes.

But it's worth pointing out that, as part of its court filing on the desktop search changes, Microsoft says it will have a beta version of Vista Service Pack 1 before the end of the year. It's especially noteworthy given how little Microsoft has said on the matter until now.

There's no word in the filing on when the final version of SP1 will arrive, so I'm guessing that means 2008.

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina.
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Finally
by keypox June 19, 2007 9:13 PM PDT
Maybe now i can reinstall vista ...
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It's still Vista
by MaLvaDo39 June 20, 2007 6:39 AM PDT
No matter how much they can try to fix it, it's still a mess.
You can't shine a turd.

Time to dump Microsoft products...
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If you try to shine a turd
by MadKiwi June 20, 2007 2:37 PM PDT
you get a Zune...
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