Microsoft Inches Closer to Final Windows Server 2003 Service Pack, 64-Bit Releases
Mary Jo FoleyMicrosoft will make available to beta testers an updated release of its Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1), its new 64-bit edition of Windows XP and its 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2003 on Tuesday evening.
AT 6 p.m. PST, the company is set to post for download the new "Release Candidate 2" (RC2) beta builds of SP1 and its x64 editions, company officials confirmed. SP1 is the underlying technology upon which the x64 releases and Windows Server 2003 R2 build. It will consist primarily of security fixes akin to those Microsoft delivered with Windows XP Service Pack 2, plus a new Security Configuration Wizard.
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