Thursday quelled rumors that the beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) was just around the corner.
"There will be a Windows Vista service pack, and our current expectation is that a beta will be made available sometime this year," a company spokeswoman said in an e-mailed statement prior to the afternoon conference call with analysts about Microsoft's quarterly earnings.
Talk had mounted since late last week of an impending release of an SP1 beta on such blogs as i started something and All About Microsoft. None of the sources quoted, however, specified whether the beta would be open to all or on an invite-only basis; the latter is typically a step in Microsoft's testing process prior to offering a beta to all comers. more...
