Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing

Reverend Ninja writes "According to the Windows Vista team blog, Windows Vista SP1 has been released to manufacturing. It appears we'll have to wait until mid-March to play with it though, as the team cites that they want everyone to have a 'great install experience'. 'Service Pack 1 brings new improvements that are based on feedback we heard from our customers. It further improves the reliability and performance of Windows Vista. The information we collect thanks to tools like the Customer Experience Improvement Program, Online Crash Analysis, and Windows Error Reporting help us learn about where and when customers are having issues with Windows Vista and the applications that run on it. Since these issues have a direct impact on our customers' experiences, we've invested time and energy to make this better. While Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is an important milestone, we will continue to invest in the continuous improvement process.'"

Comments

50% Faster?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ars Technica claims that file copies are now 50% faster in SP1.

It should only take 65 and a half years, instead of 131, to copy 168 Mb of pictures now. What a great feature! :-)

Re:I'm tired of the euphemisms

[Anonymous Coward]

I always smear Crisco on my lover's asshole, because I want him to have a 'great install experience'.

Re:I'm tired of the euphemisms

[Anonymous Coward]

I always smear Crisco on my lover's asshole, because I want him to have a 'great install experience'. Have you had any major issues with Leopard? How's the iPhone working out?

2 SPs in, 1 SP out, WINDOWS CAGE MATCH '08

[davidwr]

This week on WWE RAW we have the fight-to-the-death match of the century - brother against brother - OS against OS.

Will the newly-upgraded Microsoft XP Service Pack 3 be able to take on its younger brother Vista with Service Pack 1 or will it be too old in the tooth to stand up to its sibling?

In a fight scheduled to go several years and refereed by IT managers worldwide with the bragging rights of the very name "Windows" on the line, the world will find out which is the better OS.

Stay tuned for

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3
vs.
Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1

this week on WWE Raw.

Reading the infospeak

[SlowMovingTarget]

OK, so I'm trying to read the press announcement and my eyes keep glazing over. What I get is this:

Service Pack 1 wank wank wank wank, wank-wank, wank-wank-wank. Wank wank new OnLine Blame Casting System wank wank, synergy wank-wank going forward.

I really just want to know if they include the flying chairs screen saver. Although granted, Vista's DRM will kick in and turn the screen blank...

Re:Removed the DRM?

[ozphx]

And how do you know that the Reduced functionality mode is actually gone?

I'll check back with my mate Chris. :)

Chris: Fucking Vista! Its gone into reduced functionality mode and says I have a pirated version!
Me: Chris, you do have a pirated version.
Chris: Well..... fuck.

Re:I'm tired of the euphemisms

[kilgortrout]

Excuse me, we have neither a "mission" of a "vision"; we at Dumass Corporation have a "Passion".

Bwahaha.

[crovira]

"Not that it'll be bug free... I'm sure it will be ridden with mistakes and problems, accidental and deliberate. But it won't be because of lack of effort. I'm sure some Microsoft employees have poured their heart into this thing."

Just because you use a gold plated wide-mouth container for carting "night soil" doesn't mean you not hauling a bucket full 'o stinking shit.

Keerist. I've been hearing about Vista for YEARS, how it was going to be the 'be all and end all' and now they have to TWEAK it?

Linux has episodic incremental releases.

OS X has episodic incremental releases.

Windows has "events".

What unmitigated bullshit.