What Vista SP1 Means To You

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."

Comments

ROFL

[Abcd1234]

Yeah, I know everyone I talk to has been saying the only reason they don't switch to Vista is because there's no service pack out for it. Yup, it definitely has nothing to do with shoddy driver support from 3rd party manufacturers, or things like UAC. It's definitely been the lack of a service pack.

Honestly, is this seriously what passes of journalism these days??

Re:Two SP1 stories in one day?

[everphilski]

Despite being touted as "news for nerds" (which is a joke, half the articles aren't, but whatever) and the perennial hangout site of open-source nerds, said open-source nerds still, for some reason, still find the need to cling on every word that comes from Redmond. I don't know why. Might make an interesting doctoral dissertation for a sociology major or something.

karma be damned!

Re:Waiting for the SP

[UncleFluffy]

So if they deploy the SP later, then they have a lot of problems or just don't care for the users. If they deploy it early, they just want the people think the system is ready... So they can't win, can they?

Well, they could. There's always the option of not shipping broken code in the first place.