service-pack

I thought I would have been fine with installing the first Windows Vista SP1 beta last night (after having been invited and accepted into the feedback program). Guess what?

Everything seemed fine after the first three installer-induced reboots, but then I came to see a black screen of… nothing but my mouse cursor. No matter what I tried, I could not move past this snag.

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• The beta will be released to a moderate-sized audience in a few weeks.
• With SP1, Windows Vista can boot via EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) on an x64 machine
• SP1 supports ExFAT, a new file format that will be used in flash memory storage and consumer devices

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