The Windows Vista Team Blog just announced that Vista SP1 beta has been released to a private group of beta testers on connect.microsoft.com. Also released are five ‘reliability packs’, which will ultimately be included in SP1, but will also be released earlier so your Vista experience is “the best we can make it”. Now the question is how long will it take for SP1 to reach the P2P sites? I’m guessing it’s uploading to one now, time to go hunting…

P.S. Here’s more talk about it from Brandon at the Windows Experience Blog.