First Vista Service Pack Due Second Half of 2007 137
HuckleCom tipped us to an article on the Dark Reading site, stating that plans are already in the works for the first Windows Vista service pack. The pack is slated for release sometime in late 2007, and will target security improvements and Quality of Life issues that may spring up between January and the pack's release date. Microsoft is already looking for volunteers to help them test it. According to the email sent to Technology Adoption Program members, in order to get in on the ground floor IT shops will have to 'deploy pre-release builds into production environments and report back on the results.' As the article observes, Microsoft may be asking for a lot from their customers. Candidate releases of XP service packs had extremely deleterious effects when initially rolled out. There is no firm word for when in the year this pack will be released.
Fixes For Vista Already? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:WinXP (Score:1, Funny)
Sweet deal! (Score:5, Funny)
Boy, now THERE'S a surprise! (Score:2, Funny)
Superior marketing by design. Brilliant!
Bah (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WinXP (Score:2, Funny)
I really have no idea. Maybe it is because I live in Europe.
Re:Bah (Score:5, Funny)
Nonsense. In security discussions Vista means a particular kind of a very large hole.
Re:Yeah, right. (Score:5, Funny)
That would be funny, if that weren't the terms under which we were all already running Windows XP.
There, fixed that for you.
Re:Quick Release? (Score:3, Funny)
Do they mean "User Experience"? (Score:5, Funny)
Quality of Life issues? I mean, I've heard Vista makes you a slave to DRM but I didn't think they meant that in a literal sense.
Re:Quick Release? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:vista 2.0? (Score:3, Funny)