Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 11th Aug 2007 20:52 UTC, submitted by James Bannan
"It's no secret that there's a leaked beta of Vista SP1 floating around, but no-one yet has really taken the time to analyse it in detail to find out what it really does. I made it my mission this weekend to trawl through the registry and file changes in SP1 to find out as best I could exactly what SP1 does." Apparantly, it isn't just Vista SP1 that got leaked - Windows XP SP3 has also been leaked.
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2005-12-15
Maybe. I think the people whom would download these, even known about them, are techs like us. We're all smart enough to know this isn't final, it isn't even alpha or beta and a lot can change. Just look at Vista's big changes between releases (near the end anyway) and this is demonstrated well.
To be honest, I'm pretty happy this has happened, and hope that it was a deliberate move by Microsoft. My hope is that, and please excuse me if I seem naive on this point, that this may be the start of a trend by them to release work-in-progress builds like this to get a broader base of results and experiences. No matter how much internal testing they do, it doesn't compete with real world use.
Yes, I agree that a recovery disc tool is warmly welcomed.