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

I hope this is finally it!

[pilbender]

I hope this is going to be the last time we end up having to "deal" with this nonsense. It is my fervent hope that this OS will erode Microsoft into obsolescence for good. Then we can finally get to the business of using our computers for progress instead of being unnecessarily held back by ONE company.

Microsoft sucks a lot of time and resources from the world and it's high time they just "go away".

No No No

[Anonymous Coward]

thats simply not true. typical liberal entitlement mentality