"Microsoft Message,
Thank you in advance for your assistance in ensuring that we ship, a solid, secure service pack. Please provide us with your feedback by joining us in the newsgroups and reporting problems as soon as you encounter them.

Alongwith the SP2 Beta-1 download, Microsoft has also released Post-Beta Release notes, Service Pack 2 Deployment Guide & Service Pack 2 Hot Fix Deployment Guide as part of documentation. Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 were already released few days ago at Microsoft Download Center.

A install survey has also been added to the WindowsBeta website where you can submit one survey for every machine or type of installation you have done with Microsoft Windows SP2 beta-1.

A trained team of product support engineers will provide technical support in designated private newsgroups. This is the only support provided for the beta.

If you have not installed Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional, you need to install only the beta version of SP2 to get all of the updates provided in SP1. If you have already installed SP1, It's recommended that you install the beta version of SP2 without uninstalling SP1."

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