Dell Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Dell said Tuesday that Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system will help boost demand for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips although chip manufacturers such as Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor have been losing from their memory chip business.
The long awaited service pack was released as an RTM version in February but is now available to all genuine Windows Vista users. You can directly download the service pack from the Microsoft Download Center or as an optional update through Windows Update. The company did note however that if your system has drivers “which are currently known to be incompatible with SP1″, you will not be able to install the update.
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Microsoft will release Windows Vista Service Pack 1 next week to a wider audience, according to information posted on Amazon.com and reports from a Web site that correctly called SP1’s ship date last month. Amazon currently lists Vista SP1 retail copies as available next Wednesday, March 19, while TechARP.com, the Malaysian Web site that nailed the update’s release to manufacturing (RTM) date several days early, said users would be able to download SP1 starting Tuesday, March 18.
Given the lackluster to almost hateful response to Vista, Microsoft has confirmed that it will be releasing Windows 7 before the end of 2010. These details were released when it updated information to select partners about the Windows 7 Milestone 1 build. The company says it is on schedule to have the final version of Windows 7 completed by the end of 2009. It did not mention any specific time frame for the 2010 release; just that it will be released within a three year time frame.
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