First Vista Service Pack Due Second Half of 2007

HuckleCom tipped us to an article on the Dark Reading site, stating that plans are already in the works for the first Windows Vista service pack. The pack is slated for release sometime in late 2007, and will target security improvements and Quality of Life issues that may spring up between January and the pack's release date. Microsoft is already looking for volunteers to help them test it. According to the email sent to Technology Adoption Program members, in order to get in on the ground floor IT shops will have to 'deploy pre-release builds into production environments and report back on the results.' As the article observes, Microsoft may be asking for a lot from their customers. Candidate releases of XP service packs had extremely deleterious effects when initially rolled out. There is no firm word for when in the year this pack will be released.

Comments

Quality of Life and the environment

[Teun]

I've not yet seen Vista in the wild but read up about it.

And I understand that even on a fast computer the CPU 'idles' at around 20%.
I imagine this is not really fitting in with the Bush government's drive to lower power consumption by 20%.
Yes I know the CPU is only a part of the power bill and Bush talked about cars but for the millions of systems that are going to be deployed just these DRM cycles might cost an extra power plant...

Back to the subject of Vista SP1, is this Quality of Life maybe a backing out of the DRM scheme now it's basically cracked anyway?

Re:Quick Release?

[Columcille]

Hell, I still have a laptop running ME

You lose your "power user" claims with that one - someone that voluntarily runs ME, the worst OS that has ever existed? I like XP and I plan to upgrade to Vista pretty quick because I've liked the pre-release versions, but I cringe any time I even hear about ME.