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Vista Service Pack 1 Is Out

superglaze writes "What's to say? After much prevaricating and slipping out then pulling back, the first service pack for Windows Vista has actually been released. It's available for download now via Microsoft's sites, with an auto-update rollout scheduled for next month, and it should hit Amazon's virtual shelves on Wednesday."

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  1. "Clippy" is back . . . by StefanJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . . and now he's mad.

    Um. Seriously. I'm glad there's a service pack out. But I'm going to wait a few weeks and see if it causes USB drives to melt, or sends your life history to the Ministry of Total Information Awareness.

    1. Re:"Clippy" is back . . . by GeckoAddict · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ok that's funny.... somehow I just pictured the clippy busting down the door holding a rocket launcher as the move voice over guy says something about 'Back for revenge'

    2. Re:"Clippy" is back . . . by Oktober+Sunset · · Score: 5, Funny

      You writing a letter? Okay. You want me to help? Okay. Say hello to my little friend!

  2. hmm... by drik00 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a very bad feeling about this.

    OR

    I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. ...its a toss up.

    --
    Beer, now there's a temporary solution -- Homer Jay S.
  3. Poor Vista. by Missing_dc · · Score: 5, Funny

    "After much prevaricating and slipping out then pulling back, the first service pack for Windows Vista....."

    sounds like an awful lover.

    --
    How amazed would you be to suddenly find that you just forgot what I wrote and you needed to reread my post.... again.
  4. Re:So how long do I wait? by gQuigs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait until DNF is released.

  5. Re:So how long do I wait? by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait until it shows up in auto-update in a month would be my advice. That should give plenty of time for the tech rags to post glowing reviews of how it revolutionizes computing, solves world hunger, and cures male pattern baldness. Likewise, it will give Slashdot plenty of time to report that it makes computers crash, steals peoples' wallets, has sex with their dogs, and sets their house on fire.

    You know, the usual Microsoft software update cycle.

  6. Re:Auto upbreak. by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    something that use to take weeks now takes as long as it should.

    I still get the random spoolsv crashing for no reason but that was there before SP1.
    Man, you make Vista sound really great. I'm gonna run out and buy a copy!
    --
    You are welcome on my lawn.
  7. Re:Slow install by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because the SP1 install has to run on Vista.

  8. Re:Possible Tags by Bryansix · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't forget the slew of jokes that Vista SP1 will just reinstall XP...
    Too bad it doesn't...
  9. Re:Service Pack 1... Not impressed so far. by Bragador · · Score: 5, Funny
    The Pirate Bay will continue to offer Windows XP for a long time to come.


    I wouldn't panic if I were you...

  10. Re:Auto upbreak. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Stellar performance, and totally against what everyone else says."

    You mean the 9 out of 10 people that don't actually use Vista but happily parrot every sensationalist headline they run across?

  11. Re:Auto upbreak. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Agreed!!!
    Wow... You registered just to post that?
  12. Not only is SP1 out, it's also open source by sokoban · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's the source code: /*
    TOP SECRET Microsoft(c) Project:Longhorn(TM) SP1
    Estimated release date:2008
    */
    #include "win95.h"
    #include "win98.h"
    #include "leopard.h"

    char chew_up_some_ram[10000000];

    void main () {
    while (!CRASHED) {

    if (first_time_install) {
    make_10_gigabyte_swapfile();
    do_nothing_loop();
    search_and_destroy(FIREFOX | OPENOFFICEORG | ANYTHING_GOOGLE);
    hang_system();
    }

    if (still_not_crashed) {
    basically_run_windows_xp();
    do_nothing_loop();
    }
    }

    if (!DX10GPU()) {
    set_graphics(aero, very_slow);
    set_mouse(reaction, sometimes);
    } // printf("Welcome to Windows 2000); // printf("Welcome to Windows XP");
    printf("Welcome to Windows Vista");

    while (something) {
    sleep(10);
    get_user_input();
    sleep(10);
    act_on_user_input();
    sleep(10);
    flicker_led_promisingly(hard_disk);
    }

    creat_general_protection_fault();
    }

    --
    09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the magic number.
  13. DNF by Per+Abrahamsen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait until DNF is released. My first mental "expansion" of DNF was the term used in result listings in athletics when a runner abandon the race: "Did Not Finish".

    On second thought, from context it seems that you meant Duke-Nuke'em Forever.

    Then again, maybe the two meanings of DNF aren't that different.

  14. Huh? by Per+Abrahamsen · · Score: 5, Funny

    or sends your life history to the Ministry of Total Information Awareness. Why would Microsoft send your life history to Google?

  15. Re:Auto upbreak. by chubs730 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps digg was down?