Hot or Not: Vista SP1 Scheduled For Widespread Release

It's been some time in the making, but Microsoft soon will make its first service pack for Vista widely available. While the final version started shipping to manufacturers earlier this month, Microsoft says it's making some final tweaks to its distribution channels before general availability in a few weeks. So what can we expect?

Without a doubt, this has been a much awaited service pack from the software maker, though perhaps not as highly anticipated, or as profound in its changes, as Windows XP SP2 was several years ago. .

However, this service pack does aim to remedy many of the reliability, performance, and backward compatibility issues that some have complained about since Vista's release; and as is customary in the IT industry, large corporations generally hold off their wide scale deployments of an operating system until all of the bugs and fixes have been ironed out — and that usually means the first service pack.

Time will tell if the enhancements in this service pack are enough to entice corporations to move to Vista en masse.

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