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Well that didn't take long.
http://apcmag.com/5098/microsoft_kick_starts_vista_sp1
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Reckon you won't upgrade to Vista until the first service pack is released? That's looking likely to be the second half of this year, according to Microsoft's latest email blast.
The company has put out a call for "customers and partners (to) actively test and provide feedback on Windows Vista SP1 to help us prepare for its release in the second half of CY07 (calendar year 2007)."
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However, the Redmond clarion call declares that "regressions from Windows Vista and Windows XP, security, deployment blockers and other high impact issues as are the primary focus for the Service Pack."
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So, yes, the still not-yet-released Vista has "high impact issues".
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If Vista SP1 scrapes in by December 2007 it will have been 11 months since the OS itself debuted -- the same length of time it took for Windows XP to get its first service pack. However, Microsoft is almost certainly aiming for a much earlier arrival, perhaps to overcome the reluctance among consumers and businesses alike to plunge headfirst into Vista.
Some people referred to Vista as Windows XP Service Pack 3 with eye candy haha
Windows XP SP3 has already been posted on about here, and hes been announced for this year also with cumulative updates from SP2.
This is definitely as step in the right direction. They're admitting there's problems right out of the gate, instead of covering them up for months or years. In some ways I see the same old Microsoft botching things again, but in other light, maybe there's some hope for them in turning their image and code-base around.
Yes, thats very true admiting you have a probelem is the frist step to makeing it better and Microsoft is getting better but they are still not as good as Apple.
i totally agree that they are heading in the right direction, and fast. but i'm probably not going to buy and actual version of Vista until maybe about 4-6 months from now because they just don't have the massive driver support that XP had. when XP first came out it had about 90% of the drivers supported IN the os alone, to make it easily compatible with older printers, etc... but with Vista it seems that Microsoft is sort of nudging consumers to buy a brand new computer in order to run Vista smoothly and trouble-free, or that's just my opinion at least...
Would be good if they weren't so stupid, and fixed errors faster, or just design their OSs better. I wouldn't buy it, XP already uses up enough system resources! I don't want all this other crap on my OS thanks!
That what's wrong with a lot of things these days. Instead of getting what they do right, companies tend to just copy everyone else first, get it out as quickly as possible, then fix it later.
Yes, I think they will generally; its more a case of Vista specific games being released.
From a buying experience, PC game packaging is all over the place. So Microsoft has instituted a new "Games for Windows" logo and branding program that PC game makers can optionally follow. Games that get the logo--"Lego STAR WARS II: The Original Trilogy" and "Company of Heroes" are the first two titles--will sport consistent packaging (Figure), despite coming from different manufacturers. In fact, these Games for Windows titles will be packaged just like Xbox 360 games: Instead of a white bar at the top with a green Xbox 360 logo, you'll see a white bar at the top with a blue Windows Vista logo. Bravo.
Getting the logo isn't a walk in the park, but the end result is that consumers can expect a much simpler and more console-like experience when installing these titles. While Microsoft has yet to release the full list of requirements, I was told about a few of them this week: The game must support an "Easy Install" option that installs the title on your PC in the fewest possible steps and mouse clicks. It must install an icon and associated information into the Windows Vista Games Explorer. It must be compatible with the Xbox 360 common controller. And it must install and run properly on x64 versions of Windows Vista (though the game itself can be 32-bit).
This basically means these games will work with Vista, no problems.
Any XP Games you have will probably work, just not with Games Manager always. Just like when we upgraded to CP, most of our old games worked fine, and there were a few that simply did not; but there is certainly no reason for all XP games to fail working on Vista
The fact is, microsoft doesn't need to be pumping out treemails saying that their OS is shit, because we already know that. I am going to wait until there is an established stage in the OS where it is suitable for use.
Right now, I am not going to upgrade because my technology contains a lot of sensitive data, and putting it on vista, currently, is not a secure idea.
So, if you want vista, you obviously havn't read Microsoft's recent bug reports.