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Fuzzy Logic Final release version of Vista SP1 due ‘today’
Fuzzy Logic Final release version of Vista SP1 due ‘today’ | Final release version of Vista SP1 due ‘today’ |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 04 February 2008 | |
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Update: Vista SP1 has launched, please read my follow-up story for details. The original story is below. Presumably this will be in a US timeframe, and should be preceded by an official announcement by Microsoft, but whether the date is truly accurate or not, the arrival of SP1 should mark Vista’s maturity as an operating system, resulting in greater adoption by consumers and businesses waiting for SP1 to arrive. TechARP says that OEM system builders will also receive Vista SP1 this week, signalling the imminent availability of Vista SP1-equipped computers from retail and online stores, and the end of the original Vista era, one which Microsoft would probably rather forget. TechARP gives details of the SP1 deployment plans which are set to happen in two ‘waves’. Microsoft is supposedly calling the first wave ‘Wave 0’, and this is the wave that is meant to be debuting today. Wave 0 is supposed to cover 5 language versions of Vista - English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese. The second wave is being called ‘Wave 1’, which is slated to happen ‘1 to 2 weeks later’, and will cover 36 more languages ‘including Chinese’. TechARP has quoted Microsoft’s claims about SP1, which are said to provide “key improvements on the security, performance and reliability of Windows Vista”. Microsoft says this will be done by incorporating all previously released updates since the RTM, will feature a range of performance and reliability improvements “in core scenarios such as file copy, network browsing, and improved response time to resume from sleep” and “support for new types of hardware, and several emerging standards”. So, will Microsoft get SP1 out on time, or has the proposed Yahoo takeover placed a spanner in SP1's works? |
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