Windows Vista SP1 final build coming in February?

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Windows Vista SP1 final build coming in February?

by Brad Linder Jan 23rd 2008

Release candidates of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 have been available for a couple of months. But if you've been holding off on updating your Vista system until SP1 gets the official Microsoft seal of approval, it looks like you may not have to wait much longer.

There's a rumor going around that Microsoft is set to release Vista SP1 on February 15th. This shouldn't come as a huge shock. Microsoft had already said that the operating system update was on track for a Q1 2008 release. That said, we always take software release dates with a bucket of salt.

SP1 adds some stability, bug fixes, and hardware compatibility features to Windows Vista. Users shouldn't expect too many new features, as that was never the goal for this update. Microsoft, of course, is neither confirming nor denying that the service pack will be ready for release on February 15th.

Tags: rumor, service-pack, sp1, vista-sp1, windows-vista, windows-vista-service-pack1

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mark said 8:16AM on 1-24-2008

Screw Vista SP1 - I want XP SP3. I've an install of XP that's slowly grinding to a halt (installed 2003 on a pIII 550 mHz) - has had a bad install of Norton, changed video card drivers a few times (can't seem to get rid of the nVidia special feature centre) and generally been abused beyond all belief. I'm just waiting on SP3 so I can slipstream the service pack and enjoy a fully updated install in ~1.5 hours as opposed to wasting the next two days patching it. C'mon Microsoft - no one who has Vista or is planning to buy it (outside of getting it on the next computer they buy) actually cares about SP1. Give us XP SP3!!!

Mysterius said 8:17AM on 1-24-2008

I, for one, do care...

medicfl1 said 8:28AM on 1-24-2008

None of my $2000 worth of ADOBE products work on this stupid vista that came with my new laptop.

I have 4gigs ram 500HDD and 8600GS video card that is all a waste, since Vista has about two programs that are compatible with it.

Why can't we be able to trade vista for XP pro?

Why must vista be jammed down our throats?

LeeH said 8:44AM on 1-24-2008

Yep. I'm with medicfl1. Been running Vista for about four months on a new laptop and I'm hating it just a little bit more each and every day. I just bought a new hard drive so that I could painlessly upgrade to Ubuntu (I want to be able to swap back while I futz around with the hardware configuration). Hopefully I'll have everything set up by this weekend with Ubuntu as my main OS and XP installed on a virtual machine for the occasional times I need to run CorelDraw. Other than that, I'll never run Windows again on my home computers (knock on wood).

Mysterius said 1:39PM on 1-24-2008

Blame Adobe for being too lazy (and greedy) to make their older products compatible, forcing you to buy new versions.

New operating systems shouldn't be expected to guarantee compatibility with older software. If that were so, we'd still be stuck with DOS. (No offense to those who like DOS.)

And before you complain that Vista doesn't offer enough to make it worth the trouble of finding all new software, most software compatible with XP does work with Vista, anyways.

Colin Joss said 6:22PM on 1-24-2008

This is good news, although I will wait for SP2 before I decided to upgrade my system as always like what I did before moving from Win2k to WinXP. It's safer and less buggy for my work.

Colin Joss
East Lothian, Haddington
United Kingdom

rob said 12:00AM on 2-04-2008

after 5 days of continuous running chewing on some dat files for universities at 100% cpu usage, vista does not need rebooting. Vista is incredibly easy to network wirelessly with my wifes laptop and our printer. File sharing is extremely easy. TO TURN OFF THOSE ANNOYING "FEATURES" heres a walkthrough.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/80938-user-account-control-uac-elevate-privilege-level.html

My vista is configured to look just like xp. Easy to use, DX10 compatiable, much faster than xp only if you have the ram to use it. YOU MUST HAVE MORE RAM. Instead of writing to disk, vista puts info to ram (faster). Also, norton may be one that shows up for google vista 64 compatiable, but its certainly not the best unless you chew on bloatware. Kaspersky uses 1.8 meg running and it rates superior above everyone else in almost every class.

Only problem ive had with vista, does not like my IDE optical dvd drive for burning purposes. SP1 feb 15 has ability to create your own installation disk with your backups the way you like it.

GET VISTA and go to that website to turn UAC defender ect off.

medicfl1 said 3:57AM on 2-12-2008

"Mysterius said...
Blame Adobe for being too lazy (and greedy) to make their older products compatible, forcing you to buy new versions."

Well now, that again is not true. Check out all the driver problems.

Great news!!!
I used windows update to update my vista home prem. and it totally knocked out my networking adapters.

I did a system restore to no avail.
All drivers are on the computer but the system will not recognize them or load them, also under system device manager- no atheros network adapter shows up, only the nvidia network controller.

I am now running on a rj45 from the router to the laptop.

So much for wireless. Vista strikes again!

Be careful before you update, it might knock out your drivers and cards!

I hate VISTA!

Carlo said 1:38PM on 2-12-2008

My issue isn't with MS or Vista on really. Yes there is stability problems that MS has to deal with. Some of the stability issues do come from poorly written drivers from the manufactures. For example. I'm using a Dlink Wireless N Extreme network card on my system. When I first installed everything I was stunned at how unstable my system was. I took it in. The guys at the shop worked on it for nearly 3 weeks to come to a conclusion that the Vista drivers from the Dlink website were not functioning properly.

After getting my system back I did a test. I left the card enabled. My system would reboot randomly. If I disabled the drivers in Control Panel - my system was stable. Hmmm okay definatly an issue. I contacted D-Link. It took forever for them to get back to me. When they did get back to me, they tell me there is no compatibility issue and requested to know what trouble shooting I did. to which I replied that the store had the pc for nearly a month. Had replaced the Motherboard, CPU, Ram. When I got the system back I baught a second Wireless N extreme card from a different store to ensure its from a different batch (and it is, different revision #) and the problems persisted when the drivers when enabled.

After mentioning this Dlink then responds with an email to me saying that there IS an issue with the driver and Vista on "SOME" configurations and that their senior staff is looking into it but they gave me a direct link to an italian website that manufactures the Altheros chipset and told me which driver to download that was most stable. My configuration isn't strange at all so I dont know what they are talking about. My configuration is as follows:

Asus M2N-E SLI
Asus Nvidia 8600GT Passive Cooled video card
4GB of ram (although vista 32 only see's 3GB)
1.2 TB of HDD space over 3 Sata Drives (2 - 500GB Sata's, and a 250 GB Sata)
2 DVD RW's (IDE)

Honestly, the only thing on my motherboard that is offboard is the video card.

One further note - After installing the driver that was suggested by dlink, the stability issues that I was having dissapeared - for about 5 days. The latest is that when I would be online, it would randomly throw itself into limited or no connectivity and no longer be able to surf. the only way to fix the issue would to be to have windows disconect from the network then reconect. This worked for a few hours. Then it no longer worked and i'd have to reboot my system in order to get back online. Next I tried disabling the driver like I did before - only this time I started getting Blue screen errors. I've since uninstalled the driver, and am again for the time being, using ethernet. I might buy a Linksys Wireless N network card and see if that solves my problem. Only now that means I have 2 Dlink wireless N cards that are absolutly useless to me instead of just 1.

As for Dlink's technical support, in every piece of corraspondance I've had with them I've asked them if there was anything I could do to assist in correcting this issue - Including sending them crash logs, error numbers, or even install any tool they wish for me in order to track this issue so to help them figure out whats going on. They never once responded to this option.

As long as i'm not using the Dlink Wireless N Extreme network card my system is perfectly stable. Thats my experience.

Carlo

Corey said 9:52AM on 3-14-2008

If you can't use Vista, don't say that you hate it and blame it for your issues.

Just do what you should already be doing...admitting you're and artard.

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