Microsoft updates Vista SP1 test build

Microsoft said on Thursday that it has released another updated test version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

The company said that the new version, dubbed "Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh 2," has been released to about 15,000 beta testers. The code is not being made available publicly, Microsoft said.

The product is still on track to be finalized this quarter, Microsoft said, while offering its standard caveat. "The final release date is based on quality, so we will continue to track customer and partner feedback from the beta program before setting a final date," the company said.

Earlier this month, Microsoft released the first refresh to the release candidate of Vista SP1, first to about 15,000 testers and .

As for XP, Microsoft said it released (get ready for another mouthful) "Windows XP SP3 RC Refresh 2" to beta testers on Wednesday. Microsoft said it is aiming for a release sometime in the first half of this year, but added: "our timing will always be based on customer feedback as a first priority."

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More good news from MS

Although MS lost the PR/Marketing war fact remains all their business divisions are profitable while Apple won the marketing war but still lives in a fantasy world when you look at their forecast.

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Yawn....

While apple doesn't make as much as Window (True That), they are rapidly getting much better, not just by a 1% better.

Apple shipped 2,319,000 Macintosh® computers, representing 44 percent unit growth and 47 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 22,121,000 iPods during the quarter, representing five percent unit growth and 17 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone? sales were 2,315,000.

?Apple?s revenue grew 35 percent year-over-year to $9.6 billion, an increase of almost $2.5 billion over the previous December quarter?s record-breaking results".

You can say that those are bad numbers, unlike Microsoft, Apples stock has gone up a lot, so you will have profit taking when the situation is right.

All I know is that the last time I paid for Windows was when 98SE came out, never used it since. When was the last time that Microsoft earning were audited ?

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They really need this

It's amazing so much work went into Vista yet it was the least exiting version of Windows yet.

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What...

check you facts...M$ is watched very closely by Wall Street. You would see MSFT, GOOG going up for rest of quarter and AAPL going down in the same period.