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[RickSOLET]

Just days after Microsoft opened up the Beta testing program to early testers, the first upgrade for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 has been leaked into the wild and is available for download via various third party sources.

As previously announced, Windows 7 SP1 Beta is available only in English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.

The full Build string, 7601.16562.100603-1800 reveals that the release was compiled on June 3rd, 2010, at the start of this month.

The limited number of testers that have access to the Windows 7 SP1 Beta bits on Connect are permitted to download 7601.16562.100603-1800_Update_Sp_Wave0-B1SP1.0_DVD.iso. The ISO contains no less than three files:

• windows6.1-KB976932-x86-INTL.exe for 32-bit (x86) Windows 7 SP1
  
• windows6.1-KB976932-X64-INTL.exe for 64-bit (x64) Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
  
• windows6.1-KB976932-ia64-INTL.exe for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 IA64

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[FalseAgent]

is that ISO file the entire w7 installation with SP1? or is it just the w7 SP1 update file?

if it's the latter, that is one huge update.

[Secured Tim]

The SP1 is 1GB in size.

[Frylock86]

Why is anyone installing a beta SP?

[yanike]

1gb for an update! What all was fixed in this update? Is it worth it?

Can someone post benchmarks or something on it?