EXCLUSIVE: Download the Vista SP1 Beta!
section: download, for your questions: IT forum, 11.8.2007
The limited Windows Vista Service Pack 1 pre-beta release made available to a select group of testers in mid July was leaked to torrent trackers and is free for the taking.
Under the rule of the PR "shy" Steven a.k.a. Codename Translucency, Sinofsky, senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group — the user experience of Microsoft Windows and Windows Live services, Microsoft has gagged all details related to upcoming releases related to the Windows platform.
Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, Windows Seven and even Windows Fiji are all under Windows Omerta. And with Sinofsky, Microsoft is striving to be translucent, instead of transparent. However, the Redmond company needs to choose its "select" testers more... selectively, as Vista SP1 downloads have been uploaded to torrent trackers worldwide.
At the time of this article, no less than three such websites were offering "Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 32Bit Build 6001 16549" for download. The torrent was made available initially on August 9, and is an ISO file weighing in at approximately 3.2 GB. "This is the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Build 6001.16549. Think of it more as a pre-beta build of SP1 than an actual beta build. Full Build tag is: 6001.16549.070628-1825," reads a fragment of the release notes adjacent to the download.
Toward the end of July, Microsoft confirmed the fact that a pre-beta test build of Vista SP1 had been dropped in the laps of what it has referred to as "a select pool of testers." Admitting publicly the existence of Vista SP1 pre-beta must have torn Sinofsky's heart out. However, Microsoft emphasized that a public beta of the first service pack for Windows Vista won't be coming anytime soon. Well, it seems that some of the testers failed to see eye to eye with Microsoft on the limited nature of the pre-beta version.
Download:
Download Windows Vista SP1 Pre-Release Beta (torrent)
Download Windows Vista SP1 Pre-Release Beta (torrent)
Download Windows Vista SP1 x86 (bunch of hotfixez)
Download Windows Vista SP1 Beta x64 (bunch of hotfixez)
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180
Screenshots
Bink.nu: I did a clean install of Windows XP Professional (English, 32bit, Volume License) with Service Pack 2 integrated in a Virtual Machine. After that I installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180.
The SP3 executable pack is named windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe. So there we have the reserved KB article number. The size of the pack is 332 MB.
When installing is replaces and backs up 2,848 files (456 MB) to C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$
As before it also archives the SP3 itself in C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 2,921 Files (552 MB)
Lucky harddisk space is not an issue these days....
After installing I noticed nothing new visually yet in the Bootscreen or UI. All I noticed was that Remote Desktop Client was updated to 6.1 and that IE6 said SP3 in aboput screen.
Of course a lot of bugfixes since SP2, I mean 2848 files are renewed, I have no wireless in the VM but I assume WPA2 support is now included and High Def Audio devices are detected without need of a hotfix.
I did a Windows Update for fun, 1 high prio update appeared, the July edition of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. 2 Optionals are .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0, not .NET 3.0 ?
Download:
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180 - rapidshare link 1
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180 - rapidshare link 2
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180 - rapidshare link 3
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180 - rapidshare link 4
XP SP 3 beta torrent
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180 (link 2)
Windows XP Professional Student Edition SP3 Build 3180 Integrate torrent
onna me dan haba wunne
section: download, for your questions: IT forum, 11.8.2007
The limited Windows Vista Service Pack 1 pre-beta release made available to a select group of testers in mid July was leaked to torrent trackers and is free for the taking.
Under the rule of the PR "shy" Steven a.k.a. Codename Translucency, Sinofsky, senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group — the user experience of Microsoft Windows and Windows Live services, Microsoft has gagged all details related to upcoming releases related to the Windows platform.
Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, Windows Seven and even Windows Fiji are all under Windows Omerta. And with Sinofsky, Microsoft is striving to be translucent, instead of transparent. However, the Redmond company needs to choose its "select" testers more... selectively, as Vista SP1 downloads have been uploaded to torrent trackers worldwide.
At the time of this article, no less than three such websites were offering "Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 32Bit Build 6001 16549" for download. The torrent was made available initially on August 9, and is an ISO file weighing in at approximately 3.2 GB. "This is the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Build 6001.16549. Think of it more as a pre-beta build of SP1 than an actual beta build. Full Build tag is: 6001.16549.070628-1825," reads a fragment of the release notes adjacent to the download.
Toward the end of July, Microsoft confirmed the fact that a pre-beta test build of Vista SP1 had been dropped in the laps of what it has referred to as "a select pool of testers." Admitting publicly the existence of Vista SP1 pre-beta must have torn Sinofsky's heart out. However, Microsoft emphasized that a public beta of the first service pack for Windows Vista won't be coming anytime soon. Well, it seems that some of the testers failed to see eye to eye with Microsoft on the limited nature of the pre-beta version.
Download:
Download Windows Vista SP1 Pre-Release Beta (torrent)
Download Windows Vista SP1 Pre-Release Beta (torrent)
Download Windows Vista SP1 x86 (bunch of hotfixez)
Download Windows Vista SP1 Beta x64 (bunch of hotfixez)
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180
Screenshots
Bink.nu: I did a clean install of Windows XP Professional (English, 32bit, Volume License) with Service Pack 2 integrated in a Virtual Machine. After that I installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180.
The SP3 executable pack is named windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe. So there we have the reserved KB article number. The size of the pack is 332 MB.
When installing is replaces and backs up 2,848 files (456 MB) to C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$
As before it also archives the SP3 itself in C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 2,921 Files (552 MB)
Lucky harddisk space is not an issue these days....
After installing I noticed nothing new visually yet in the Bootscreen or UI. All I noticed was that Remote Desktop Client was updated to 6.1 and that IE6 said SP3 in aboput screen.
Of course a lot of bugfixes since SP2, I mean 2848 files are renewed, I have no wireless in the VM but I assume WPA2 support is now included and High Def Audio devices are detected without need of a hotfix.
I did a Windows Update for fun, 1 high prio update appeared, the July edition of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. 2 Optionals are .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0, not .NET 3.0 ?
Download:
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180 - rapidshare link 1
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180 - rapidshare link 2
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180 - rapidshare link 3
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180 - rapidshare link 4
XP SP 3 beta torrent
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta build 3180 (link 2)
Windows XP Professional Student Edition SP3 Build 3180 Integrate torrent
onna me dan haba wunne
