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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.'"
Of course this should be just as stable as Vista was originally. Anyone have bets as to how long before a significant program of widespread use is broken, or Vista breaks itself with SP1? I give it about 5 minutes following release.
Beyond that, has there been any actual basis showing that SP1 (of the testers) adds any form of significant performance enhancements? Last I read about improving Vista performance people basically said "turn off everything that differentiates vista from XP"
By now, everyone knows vista sucks. Its not the quirky rantings of the slashdot crowd, its the warnings from mainstream consumer media and magazines. Besides, Vista is for home users. The ones stuck with a retail PC, too dumb to pirate XP (since it will not be available at retail for much longer), and too afraid to use Ubuntu. For corporate users, Vista with SA has one (and only one) good feature - Downgrade Rights! Long live XP.
Corporate users will kick the tires again with SP1, and then stick with XP until the next version of Windows comes out. SP1 will fail our predeployment testing at the same point RTM failed, because Microsoft's own admin tools for exchange (ESM) and windows server 2003 (adminpak.msi) will neither install nor run. It will never make it out of the test lab. But its pretty.
I do feel sorry for those home users, so I always keep (K)Ubuntu discs on hand.
Never noticed this either, and I really don't remember ever fiddling with the internet preferences. Is there a little checkbox on the message that says "Never ask me this again"? Try checking it and see if it helps.
And you just proved you've never fucking used VISTA - because they deliberately REMOVED that particular checkbox and option under Vista (but it's there in IE7 for XP).
Just another plant from Micro$haft I see.