French tech website PC INpact is reporting that it got its grubby little hands on the exact release dates of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as well as Windows XP Service Pack 3. According to a source, Vista SP1 is to be released on the night of February 18 while XP SP3 will be released on the night of March 23.
“The ‘Wow’ Starts Now,” Microsoft proclaimed when it officially launched Windows Vista a year ago. But looking back from Vista’s first birthday, while Microsoft claims Vista is a major reason for its best revenues ever, it’s been a year when Vista, far from scoring a quick knock-out, seemed to take more punches than it landed in the early rounds. If there is any good news for Microsoft it is that with experience — and adjustments — Vista has finally begun to accumulate points on the cards of both enterprise and consumer judges.Vista’s first year was not an entirely smooth one, to say the least. Early on, even while it was winning the respect of the security community for at least improving on previous versions of Windows, it met with some very public rejections from large organizations like the Department of Transportation, where CIO Daniel Mintz placed “an indefinite moratorium” on upgrades to Vista, citing “no compelling technical or business case for upgrading.” Similar pronouncements came from enterprises that were worried about Vista’s incompatibility with their existing applications, or the high hardware costs imposed by the new operating system.
So, yesterday Microsoft announced that SP1 for Vista had gone RTM. This means that the first service pack for Windows Vista has been finalized and this is what we’ll have to live with until we see SP2. I’ve been plowing through the masses of SP1 related documentation to come out of Redmond and come up with a shortlist of reasons why I’ll be applying SP1 as soon as I get my hands on the code.
Microsoft has wrapped up development of two major products, Windows Server 2008 and the Service Pack 1 update to Windows Vista, CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts Monday.”Both products have released to manufacturing today, which is good news,” Ballmer said.
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