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What Vista SP1 Means To You

Posted by Zonk on from the see-your-doctor dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Geek.com has an interview with Nick White, Microsoft's Vista Product Manager, covering the upcoming release of Vista SP1. The interview goes over some of the new features, how the change will affect admins, and how Microsoft decides if a change should be rolled out as an update or as part of the service pack. One of the most interesting questions asks whether people should feel that they have to wait until SP1 to upgrade to the operating system, a common practice with Windows users. White writes off this practice as no longer being necessary and notes how Windows Update has lessened the importance of the release of a service pack. Just the same, a News.com article explores the possibility that this update will finally begin driving users to Vista."

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  1. What Vista SP1 means to me by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    Vista SP1 means fresh material to pick on Microsoft for. So now, instead of having a year of the same old "Vista sucks and is failing" articles on Slashdot day after day, we'll have fresh new material like "Vista SP1 sucks and is failing."

    1. Re:What Vista SP1 means to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      What it means to me is enough freelance support work that I'll be able to afford a new Mac. On the downside, it's the IT equivalent of working with raw sewage.

  2. Bloat? by Thyamine · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, I didn't know you could remove bloat with a Service Pack.

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  3. Re:New features? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't I just read in the Slashdot Vista news earlier "The service pack is said to improve performance and stability, not to add features." Yes, very misleading. Performance and stability are the new features.
  4. one step closer to ... by boxlight · · Score: 2, Funny
    Vista SP1 will be one step closer to a Windows that's as good as Mac OS X.


    Just like Windows eventually caught up to Mac with Windows95 and then exceeded it with Windows 2000, Microsoft will once again catch up to Mac OS X with an eventual improved version of Vista that looks and feels as good.


    When that time comes Apple faithful will rant "Mac's had that for 5 years!" and it won't matter anymore. Apple had better get innovating the next major killer features fast, because Microsoft is always improving.

  5. A message from raw sewage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    On the downside, it's the IT equivalent of working with raw sewage.

    We, the raw sewage community, take umbrage with that remark.

  6. huh? by catbutt · · Score: 4, Funny

    One of the most interesting questions asks if whether people should feel like that have to wait until SP1 to upgrade to the operating system, a common practice with Windows users Who wrote that sentence? Miss South Carolina?
    1. Re:huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, Miss South Carolina is a beautiful, intelligent human being who feels deep embarrassment and shame after her public humiliation. She'll work hard to make sure you don't see a mistake like that from her again in her lifetime.

      Zonk, on the other hand...

  7. Windows Vista SP1 and you... by botkiller · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you ready for that mouse driver to _maybe_ stop crashing your system?

    Yeah, we thought so. Well, tough luck, pointdexter.

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  8. Re:/. and moderations... by drsmithy · · Score: 2, Funny

    From the comments I would propose that the traditional linux stronghold has been lost. Anyone making negative references to Microsoft products seems to be modded down and 'out yelled', whether the comments are on technical merits, anecdotal or opinionated, or derogatory.

    You must be reading some other Slashdot.

    Here, pretty much any post that criticises Windows or Microsoft is a shoe-in for some sort of positive moderation, regardless of its accuracy or how (badly) it might be written. Anyone posting about Microsoft in a non-critical fashion - even if they do nothing more than correct factual errors in a neutral fashion - is considered "pro Microsoft", a "shill", an "Astroturfer" or similar. Technical arguments against Windows are few, far between and typically based on 10+ year old (outdated) information, if not on a completely different product (Windows 9x). Posters revel in their ignorance of Windows and other technology they don't like (eg: DRM) and see no problem whatsoever in basing rants against such topics upon that ignorance.

    Slashdot lost as a "traditional Linux stronghold" ? You must be joking. Slashdot has become the Fox News of the Linux world.

  9. Re:What this means is that M$ is begging again. by colourmyeyes · · Score: 2, Funny

    7. Profit!!!!

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