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.
Re:Quick Release? (Score:5, Informative)
How much could they possibly fix this quick in an OS as monolithic as Vista? not much is my guess. Its more of a combover for people who dont want to get burned like they did with XP when it first released.
Its XP that really made people realize how horribly buggy software could be on release. How many corporate offices wont upgrade software to something untill after a particular period of proven reliabilty on the market now? My guess is quite a bit more since XP.
And how many of those set the requiremnt to be after X number of major upgrades? A Service Pack would qualify to most people as fairly major.
Re:Quality of Life and the environment (Score:5, Informative)
Re:"Quality of Life" == DRM (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Quality of Life and the environment (Score:4, Informative)
Methinks the people who made the 20% claim forgot to look at what was actually producing it.
Mine goes like:
DWM 2% (that's aeroglass AFAIK)
Task Manager 2% (you can discount that from normal running figures)
Lots of random stuff making it up to between 5% and peaking at 10% (not really a problem.. XP would peak at around the same level).
I'm not fan of vista by any means but CPU usage isn't its problem. *disk* usage... well that's a whole different story - until I switched off windows search the disk light was permanently on (*not* good for a laptop on battery). Still has the occasional burst of reading random files (something in svchost) that I need to track down/kill.
Re:Quick Release? (Score:5, Informative)
The point is that most of the work will have been done for the server release already. They may as well package up a new build of the client since it will inherit any improvements from the server.
Don't believe the FUD (Score:3, Informative)
I'm not saying Vista is all that great or anything, but you heard wrong. [fatalexception.org]
(This is running on a 3.4GHz P4, single core, 2GB RAM, nVidia 6600, Aero Glass enabled.)
Re:Quick Release? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Quick Release? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Quick Release? (Score:2, Informative)
Vista went in to RTM in November, so releasing SP1 mid 2007 will leave at 6 to 8 months for bug fixes. Considering how long Vista was in development, and (more importantly) knowing Microsoft, you can assume that there was a lot of polishing that got pushed aside in a rush to just finally get the damn thing out and over with.
Additionally, since Longhorn Server is still under development - and releasing Beta 3 next month or so - there's probably still lots of work being done on the client/server relationship. Changes and bug fixes could be made to the server edition that will require slight changes to clients.
So really it's fairly reasonable to think that there would be at least some changes worth making.
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Re:Yeah, right. (Score:3, Informative)