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Vista SP1 Coming In Q1 2008

Posted by kdawson on from the quicker-than-XP's dept.

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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  1. I wish... by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Funny

    The service pack is said to improve performance and stability, not to add features. I hope it'll add a few bugs too. I don't want using this OS start feeling completely alien. :-/
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  2. Re:Me'thinks by bbernard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now how am I going to hold people off? My excuse has always been "not until SP1 comes out." I'm screwed.

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  3. Re:Windows XP SP3 by WindowsIsForArseWipe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dammit, screw Vista, where's my SP3 for Windows XP?

    Hven't you heard

    Its called Vista!

  4. Finally! by eln · · Score: 3, Funny

    I look forward to this much-needed update being released in November 2011.

  5. 15,000 people will get the beta??? by dada21 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't that more than are running Vista right now?

  6. Re:it seems that the standalone image is going to by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the intention is to fix everything that's wrong with Vista, I'm impressed they got it all into only 1 GB.

  7. Skype goes into panic mode by mbadolato · · Score: 5, Funny

    Up to 15,000 people will get access to a beta of SP1 by the end of September


    To which the developers at Skype are yelling "HOPEFULLY NOT ALL AT THE EXACT SAME TIME, ASSHATS!" :)
  8. The sp should make things much better by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because the Vista SP1 simply uninstalls Vista and installs XP.

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  9. Re:There's another story on news.com by realmolo · · Score: 2, Funny

    My guess is that it's 50MB for the *installer*, which then downloads the actual 1GB of service pack files from Microsoft's site.

    They're lying, in other words.

  10. Re:Me'thinks by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...because now Microsoft KNOWS this fact and also has learned...

    Historical data suggests this is probably not so.

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  11. Re:The real beginning of Vista by MyLongNickName · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bovine Feces
    steaming turd

    Descriptions from a man named 'Lumpy'.

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  12. Re:Me'thinks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny


    You want the REAL internet? Bitch, go learn to use telnet and render that HTML in your own head.

  13. Re:Window Handles my friend. by i.r.id10t · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course. Used to be you could only have 3 windows open, maybe 3.1 if it was using a child process (MDI type interface). Then the limit was upped to 95, then 98, then 2000 of 'em and then ....

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  14. Re:Me'thinks by MayorDefacto · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm actually glad it was released early...

    Vista was released early? Now that's rich!

  15. Re:The real beginning of Vista by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Win ME wasn't totally useless. I heard it got a few people to switch to Linux.

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  16. Re:Windows XP SP3 by EnsilZah · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for the clarification, I thought it was the first part of the new cdkey I was going to have to use.