Microsoft - Vista Service Pack #1 Is No Big Deal
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The release of Service Pack #1 for Microsoft Windows Vista is on the back burner with rumors flowing around the internet of a release date which seems to go from later this year all the way until 2009. So what it really is starting to look like is all of those self professed know it alls about Microsoft types, really don’t have a clue when the release will actually take place. I must admit I was also taken in by the July 16th, 2007 hype of a beta being released on that date. Obviously that was not the case.
So I will have to steal a line from the movie Cool Hand Luke in which the tagline was:
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
Rumors are part of the backbone that keeps the excitement going in the technology field. The so called ‘insiders’ always seem to have an inside source of some type that is spilling the beans about the next secret release of something, just to keep the rest of us on the edge of our seats. But in the case with Microsoft, it is anyones guess when anything is going to happen. The software giant is known for being late with releasing operating systems, service packs and patches. One would think that we should know better to believe anyone who states they are a inside source to anything Microsoft does. Yet we, myself included, love to spread rumors started by others to show we are on top of everything, only to find that Microsoft has their own schedule and will do what they want when they want.
So when is Microsoft going to release Service Pack #1 for Vista? Pick a date. Any date. Because your guess is just as good as the next person.
Comments welcome.
4 Comments
Tim Hodkinson
July 27th, 2007
at 9:35am
November 10th.
Not sure which year, though.
Vista really is changing the way we do computing.
Ron Schenone
July 27th, 2007
at 12:08pm
Hi Tim,
Good comment. The year is also up in the air! LOL
Ron
Jay
October 13th, 2007
at 9:29pm
Vista is a horrible OS. It doesn’t work, XP was working fine there was really no point. Vista eats up so much ram space that you cant run hardly anything without buying a crapload of ram that most people cant afford. I am currently going to an engineering college and everybody that I talk to hates Vista. Microsoft has got a lot of work to do to make this an OS that actually works.
Buddy
December 28th, 2007
at 2:06am
@Jay
Most people who “hate” Vista have not used it for more than a few days and typically had a bad experience months back when more than a few people couldn’t find Vista drivers for their hardware or peripherals. I was one of those people - I used Vista for a few daysin early 2007, didn’t like how it did a lot of things, and spent the next few months flaming it.
However, out of sheer curiosity I installed Vista again 3 months ago and haven’t looked back since. Hardware support is now pretty solid, and overall I think Vista provides an excellent user experience for those with fairly powerful computers (at least 1Gb of RAM, a speedy processor, and a 80Gb or larger hard drive). I’m running Vista on a one and a half year old Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with 1Gb of RAM and I’m loving it.
So it all depends - if you’ve got an older computer Vista won’t run well. If you have a newer computer with at least a gig of RAM, you’ll most likely love it.
P.S. I know many IT guys (I’m one of them) who are running Vista and prefer it over XP. Not all “expert” users prefer XP over Vista - not by a long shot.