Windows Server 2003 SP1 inches closer

MS-Watch | at | by Mike

While many Windows watchers have been keeping a close eye on the forthcoming Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, Microsoft is working simultaneously on another service pack: the first for Windows Server 2003.

Microsoft has said to expect the final Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) release to ship in the latter half of 2004. It has not said when SP1 will enter broadscale public beta testing.

But earlier this week, according to the ieXbeta Windows enthusiast site, Microsoft released to a group of private testers a third interim test build of SP1.