“The wait is nearly over for the first service pack for Windows Vista, according to sources close to Microsoft. Microsoft has said the highly anticipated service pack would be out in the first quarter of this year, but some say it could be available in the next few weeks, more than a month before the quarter ends on March 31.” That’s what PCWorld says anyway, BetaNews thinks it will arrive in March. A new build has been released, in any case.
Any word on when XP SP3 is due out?
SP1 installed itself on my machine 2 nights ago. If it’s a beta, it didn’t let me know. Actually, I resisted installing it for a week or so, but the other day I ran a few errands, and when I got back, I was looking at the log-in screen. When I checked the Windows Update history, SP1 was there, along with a few other updates.
Have you messed with the Windows Update settings in any way or previously installed it? In addition, what version are you using?
I’m using a standard off-the-shelf version of Vista Business 32, and the only update I’ve got in a few days is an update to the Windows Mail junk mail filters (and the only reason I got that is because I haven’t bothered to uninstall Windows Mail). Unless you’re using a very different version of Vista than I am (corporate, maybe?), we should have almost identical updates…
You’ll probably find that he thought he was installing SP1 for Windows Vista, but it was SP1 for Office 2007 – given that updates for all Microsoft products can now be delivered through the one interface, that is what he most likely installed.
You’ll probably find that he thought he was installing SP1 for Windows Vista, but it was SP1 for Office 2007
You mean it upgraded my copy of Office 2000 to 2007 and then installed SP1? In that case, the problem is twice as bad as I thought.
Let´s see. This may be Vista´s last chance.
Here in Brazil Vista is being a HUGE fiasco!
Windows 7 will be the real Vista fix!
Edit: I mean, hopefully 🙂
Edited 2008-01-26 09:00 UTC
I thought windows XP was the real fix for Windows 2K or was it Windows 2K was the real fix for NT or was it Windows ME was the real fix for Windows 98 or was it windows 98 was the real fix for windows 95 or was it Windows 95 was the real fix for Windows 3.1? I am really looking forward to Windows 7 will be the real Vista fix! 😉
Edited 2008-01-26 15:26 UTC
They will fix the Mobile device center, I have never seen such a finicky crap shoot since activesync in xp, otherwise Ive been using sp1 for a couple weeks and its been pretty stable, definitly not groundbreaking, but it improves alot of the small annoyances I had with RTM.
HAHAHAHAHA….hey..that was a GOOD one!!!!
I haven’t laughed that hard in days…thanks for making
my day with that….
Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 are the only Windows editions Microsoft has done right. Pretty much all Windows editions based on the NT code base are rock solid except for Vista of course. I am looking forward to XP SP3 big time with all the security fixes. It will be one great OS.
Edited 2008-01-27 03:52 UTC
Pushing SP1 is just like pushing Windows vista release.
This won’t help make IT staff use it, because even though vista is more immune to infections than patched XP with SP2and IE7 and an Antivirus software, windows vista remains resource hog. And it interferes with productivity, add to that incompatiblity of some web sites with IE7 and alot of Applications incompatibility add to that the huge amount of money you need to pay to run vista smoothly, and also from administrative point of view alot of changes happened to the worse (deeply nested windows). And to turbid your day, the GUI is now even more severly confusing and things are not in the same places it used to be (eg: who said a visible menubar is a bad idea? why sould I press Alt to bring it back?!)
All of these factors makes switching to another platform is even acceptable. Like OSX with its very successful subversions that don’t hurt but please its customers.
If MS doesn’t do these, then Vista would fail:
1. Speed up the OS (turn off desktop composition, indexing or other demanding services that are unnecessary).
2. Improve compatiblity with applications.
3. Fix Its IE and Windows Explorer from Crashes and weired behaviors.
4. Check networking stack for more performance and bug fixes
5. improve startup time like they promised before.
6. remove the black screen behind UAC windows which scares alot of people; You can copy Apples method.
7. Fix Printers unexplained disconnections and wireless unexplained inconsistancies because these are very important to buisnesses.
8. Do other more and more and more things.
“1. Speed up the OS (turn off desktop composition, indexing or other demanding services that are unnecessary).”
You can already turn of desktop composition and it should make your computer faster not slower. It just uses a little more memory(60MB)
“2. Improve compatiblity with applications.”
MS has probably done all it can do. It’s now time for the application developers to make their own programs compatible with Vista.
“3. Fix Its IE and Windows Explorer from Crashes and weired behaviors.”
Personally I haven’t had any weird crashes with Explorer and who uses IE7 anyway?
desktop composition is here in order to have a free-glich redraw of windows and offers off-loading CPU and better responsiveness.
Indexing service runs in low I/O priority and so it doesn’t affect the performances of other user’s activities.
Application should be compatible with the OS, not the OS with applications. And by the way, Microsoft fixed a lot of incompatibility of poorly written 3rd parties applications: in fact Vista has a built-in application compatibility database and service that is updated via Windows Update and this service adjusts the compatibility when an user installs or run a well known incompatible application.
crashes are caused by poorly written 3rd parties browser extensions, poorly written 3rd parties shell extensions. It’s not a Microsoft fault.
my internet connection is faster in Vista than XP. Internet browsing is smoother in Vista than XP.
my Vista startup time is less than 60 seconds. There’s nothing to improve. Use the hybrid sleep function and your system will start-up in less than 5 seconds!
this is called secure desktop, it protects the authentication window from shatter attacks.
Edited 2008-01-27 15:32 UTC
Any Windows and Spybot Search & Destroy , joined at the hip forever.
Does this SP1 apply to Vista Business, from what I have seen at work Vista Business from the Windows Sys Admin’s does not work with the tools (Microsoft based) to perform daily job functions.
From the appearance factor it does have a nice look to it, but one of the guys I know he had to go back to XP Pro in order to use the system tools.
I was under the impression that these tools would be compatible since they were built by MS?
Does anyone know of any big corporations using Vista Business on the desktop?