Microsoft will start beta testing for vista
Microsoft Corp. has announced that it will start beta testing the next service pack update for Windows Vista in coming weeks.
The update release will be SP2 for Vista, the operating system which has started fairing well. Familiar sources cited that testers have received invitations to beta test Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2).
In the forthcoming weeks, beta releases will be offered to invited testers, but not to the general public.
As of, service packs consist of collections of the patches, hotfixes and reliability updates released since the original edition of the operating system, or its last service pack, whichever came last.
On the same laegue, Vista SP2 will include Windows Search 4, Bluetooth 2.1 wireless support, and support for Via Technologies Inc.’s 64-bit processor. Currently, Via is best known for its C7 chip.
Windows Search 4.0 is the latest version of Microsoft’s desktop search engine, and was issued to current Vista users via Windows Update last July.
So far, the company has issued just one service pack for the operating system, SP1.
The company wants to issue the service pack before it releases Windows 7, Vista’s successor.
Lately, Microsoft announced “Windows 7” code name as official name for the upcoming operating system.