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Rumors of a Vista Service Pack continue to surface, the latest coming from Winbeta.org which [posted an e-mail][1] the Windows Driver Kit mailing list which seems to hint at a service pack release in the very near future.
The e-mail in question tells driver developers that "This WDK beta release to Connect coincides with the recent OS beta release for Vista SP1 Preview," however, Microsoft later [issued an apology][2] saying that what it meant to write was Windows Server 2008.
But that hasn't stopped the rumor mills. [PCWorld reports][3] that sources close to the company have been told that SP1 would be released by now and since today is the day Microsoft will announce its fiscal 2007 fourth quarter and year-end financial results, SP1 would be a nice way to cap those off.
Given the many users, particularly large corporate companies, have said they will hold off on upgrading until the first Vista service pack update is available, even a beta release of SP1 could boost Microsoft's sales.
Microsoft also needs to contend with the upcoming release of Leopard, Apple's next OS upgrade and a Vista SP1 could be a good way to steal a bit of Apple's thunder.
For its part Microsoft remains mum about any specifics regarding a Vista SP1 release.
[1]: http://winbeta.org/comments.php?id=8475&catid=1
[2]: http://winbeta.org/comments.php?shownews=8497&catid=1
[3]: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134748-c,vistalonghorn/article.html
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