Microsoft Opens Windows 7 SP1 Beta to Public

July 12, 2010 at 2:14 pm PT

It’s not as hotly anticipated as the first update for Vista, but Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 (along with SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2) is now available for public beta testing. The intended audience at the moment is enterprise users, not consumers, but if you want to pose as an IT professional and apply for the download, you’ll find the expected collection of hotfixes and incremental updates, along with RemoteFX for the server OS, which provides a 3-D graphical interface for remote users.

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