Microsoft释放了窗口景色服务组装1 (SP1) `发行候选人’ (RC)。 在官员SP1在第一季度释放2008年之前，这是最后步。 注意这仍然不是正式代码，那么那里可能仍然是臭虫(但嘿，更将有臭虫在正式发行)。 如果您安装此，您很可能将需要在安装最后的发行之前去除它。

如果您有快速的网络连接，容易的方法安装将是以一个 独立安置者包括一切您需要开始。 请采摘哪一个您需要，根据，如果您是跑32位(最共同性)或64位，和什么语言您使用(从最后二选择，如果您使用多语言)。

• 32位用英语，德语，日语，法语，西班牙语
• 64位用英语，德语，日语，法语，西班牙语
• 32位在36种窗口景色语言
• 64位在36种窗口景色语言

另一个方式得到它(在不可避免的P2P连接旁边)将直接地通过窗口更新下载它。 微软描述它当`经验吴基于景色SP1设施

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今天我们使成为可利用发行候选人(RC)窗口景色SP1通过 微软连接和明天订户对TechNet和MDSN也是将得以进入对那些RC位的。 另外， RC对公开以后星期将是可利用的通过微软的下载中心。 发行候选人阶段Beta版软件典型地是最后形势，在RTM (发布对制造业)之前产品并且表明代码获得了表现和稳定的一个重大水平。

让我召集从Beta发行做的几变动服务组装1 -许多，其中来自由于直接反馈我们Beta测试的社区(谢谢!) ：

• 独立安置者的大小显著减少了。 For example, the standalone installer packages consisting of all 36 languages (x86 and x64 chip architectures) are smaller by over 50%. The standalone installer packages consisting of just the 5 languages (again, x86 and x64) slated for initial release are more than 30% smaller in size.
• The required amount of disc space for SP1 installation has also decreased significantly. Furthermore, with the RC, if more space is required to install SP1, an error message will now display exactly how much space is needed

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Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate build is live. Microsoft is hammering away at the third and final service pack for Windows XP, and is making consistent headway in the matter. Truth be told, since the 2004 availability of XP SP2, and after the numerous delays of SP3 across 2006 and 2007, Service Pack 3 is long overdue. But at the same time, the refresh is getting closer and closer at a fast pace. Microsoft has in fact synchronized the development milestones of Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP SP3.

The third service pack for XP was initially introduced as a Beta preview version concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1 pre-Beta in mid July 2007. Ever since that point, Vista SP1 and XP SP3 have been joined at the hip. In this regard, Vista SP1 moved into Beta stage at the end of September 2007, with XP SP3 Beta following closely behind in early October. Last week, Microsoft opened up the test driving process of Vista SP1 with a preview of the first Release Candidate to the service pack shipping to approximately 15,000 testers. (more…)

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