Article: Microsoft to Make Windows Vista SP1 RC Widely Available; The software maker remains on track to release the first Windows Vista service pack in the first quarter of 2008.

Microsoft made the release candidate for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available through Microsoft Connect Dec. 5 for testing by the 15,000 people who already are kicking the tires on earlier beta releases.

However, the release candidate will also be made available to all MSDN and TechNet subscribers Dec. 6, along with a deployment guide, and will be made generally available to the broader public sometime the following week via Microsoft's download center, David Zipkin, senior product manager for Windows client, told eWEEK.

"We feel very good about the fact that our current set of testers is a good distribution of different kinds of users and partners. But given the amazing variety of usage ...

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