今天尼克 宣布 发行候选人的可及性为窗口景色SP1。 我有一个机会得到窗口景色SP1 RC修造安装几天前。 我在陈列各种各样的设备型号和情景的所有决定滚动RC我的个人计算机：

• 我的主要桌面个人计算机连续窗口景色最后x64 -检查。
• 我的测试或工作个人计算机连续窗口景色事务-检查。
• 我的小山谷Vostro 1500年膝上计算机连续窗口景色最后-检查。
• 我的Samsung Q1 UMPC连续在家窗口景色保险费-检查。
• 我的数字式CableCard个人计算机连续在家窗口景色保险费-检查。

在安装RC在我的个人计算机，我做了使用独立安置者和窗口更新的组合。 在继续之前安装SP1 RC位， I首先需要首先卸载SP1 beta位。 用户看安装窗口景色SP1 RC将需要在RC的设施之前卸载SP1的所有老版本从窗口更新或独立安置者。 与窗口更新，一旦下载了SP1，屏幕一个新系列告诉我关于SP1出现。 对话屏幕同一系列

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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。 The release candidate phase of beta software is typically the final phase before the RTM (release-to-manufacturing) of a product and indicates that the code has attained a significant level of performance and stability.

Let me call out several changes made since the Beta release of Service Pack 1 — many of which came about as a result of direct feedback from our Beta-testing community (thank you!):

• The size of the standalone installers have decreased significantly. 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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Microsoft is well on its way to delivering the first service pack for Windows Vista. Currently, the exact availability date for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is up in the air, Microsoft having offered only a general timetable that points to the first quarter of 2008. And with Vista SP1 intimately connected with Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, at kernel level, the first service pack for latest Windows client from Microsoft is synchronized with the company’s last 32-bit server operating system. The official launch of Windows Server 2008 has been set for
February 28, next year, and Vista SP1 is bound to keep up the pace wit the server platform.

In mid July, Microsoft debuted the testing of Vista SP1 outside of Redmond. A preview of the first beta of Vista SP1 shipped to a select pool of testers at that time. (more…)

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