Up until now the Windows 7 SP1 Beta has only been available to Technet or MSDN subscribers, so us common users haven’t been able to get our hands on it. Well for those of you who are early adopters and anxious to try it out, now you can. All you need is a Windows Live ID which anyone can get (if you don’t already have one) and head on over to the Microsoft Eval Center to download the beta right now.

Now if you don’t fancy installing the beta of Windows 7 SP1, don’t worry because you’re not really going to be missing out on a whole lot to be honest. There is no new features coming in the first service pack for Windows 7 and Microsoft see it only as a minor update for the operating system, it’s just to fix the odd little bug here and there and improve security.

However, in reality, you probably have Windows 7 SP1 installed on your PC, it’s really just a combination of all the patches and security updates that have been released by Microsoft and in theory should have been installed automatically on your machine by the Windows Update facility.

And if you do go and install Windows 7 SP1, there’s probably quite a good chance that you will have to uninstall it sometime in the future when the code has been finalized. Very rarely will you find that a beta release is the same code as the final release.

The full RTM isn’t expected until Q2 2011 so maybe if you’re really eager to try out SP1, you should download it now if you can’t wait.

Source http://www.windows7news.com/