Don't believe it do you honestly think the file hashes would be the same if it was updated to include SP1 beta that is old.
I don't think Microsoft would integrate a Service Pack into a RTM OS, at least not when it's in the Beta phase.
and why not? you know they need to test integration part as well and test how it will act as integrated...
This has been done before.I have seen previous SP betas(Not Win7) where SP has been integrated into image.Besides in the end they will release MSDN ISO that has SP1 integrated so it makes sense.
But still from 178 to 693 is quite a huge difference... Microsoft itself said that SP1 won't be a major upgrade, it won't include any new features. And there can't be such many updates in just 1 month... 178 was compiled in July (I think) and this one in August, Microsoft wouldn't release so much updates in just one month, there had to me hundreds maybe more in that ISO to get up to over 600. Don't get me wrong, I trust Zukona more than I trust myself! But still 693 is just a number so it doesn't matter at all, any leaks yet? No info from WZor yet unfortunately
Its only a number... dont make to big of a deal from it... they can version it as 890345983905830 if they want... im sure there is a reason for the "jump" you(we) just dont know about it, but it probably have something to do with reaching certain development milestone... because they also went from 7601.16xxx to 7601.17xxx
Yes that could be it. You don't know any news about the changes made don't you, yet? Anyway at the moment I'm very excited about IE9, 2 more days and we can test it <3 I just hope it will have the new interface because the old one is hmmm OLD. Thank you SoLoR for everything and to torko26 for keeping us up-to-date with the screenshots