Vista SP1 Coming In Q1 2008

Many readers sent in word of Microsoft's announcement of the schedule for Vista SP1. The Beskerming blog has a good summary. Up to 15,000 people will get access to a beta of SP1 by the end of September; general release is targeted (not promised in stone) for early 2008. The service pack is said to improve performance and stability, not to add features.

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There's nothing like a does of Register reality to make your morning. "Microsoft promises less-annoying Vista OS early next year" gets right to the M$ money line:

[Vista product manager Nick White] "as always, we're first and foremost focused on delivering a high-quality release, so we'll determine the exact release date of SP1 after we have reached that quality bar."

Limbo, limbo, how low can you go? After six years of development, you would think Vista would at least work as well as XP. It does not because big dumb media companies were the customer, not you. Most of you have given this "little-used operating system" the thumbs down it deserves. One more year is not going to make a big difference and you have to wonder if M$ will be able to recover such a wrecked code base. They are not going to give up their expensive digital restrictions but those will never work, what can they do?