It's been some time since we've all wanted an SP1 for Vista. The not-so-final version, but mostly good enough for public testing has been released today. As with every "beta" software, you should be careful and not install this on any mission critical systems, but if you are like me - you won't care less and just go for it and see what Microsoft's kitchen has in store for us. Here's the download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=529d992a-d69e-4c73-9213-7a7f3852c0ca&displaylang=en&tm Also, you might be interested in reading up about it first on ZD-Net: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1106 P.S. Is Microsoft trying to show us how good Vista is meant to be just a day before the MacWorld 2008? :) ...