Vista SP1 beta 1 to launch in mid-July

All about Microsoft | at | by Mike

Its official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft.

Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end the company is set to deliver Beta 1 of Vista SP1 in mid-July.

Word is Microsoft is gearing up to drop Vista SP1 some time the week of July 16. And despite what Microsoft seemingly led Google, the U.S. Department of Justice and other company watchers to believe, the final version of Vista SP1 is sounding like November 2007.