Vista SP1 Preview

[Noema]

Paul Thurrott has included a preview of Vista's SP1 and some of the changes and tweaks that will be included once it finally ships.

 

[Drexl]

Wow, I didn't know about Google's complaint about the search. How ridiculous is that? Hopefully it's just not on the start menu by default but you can turn it back on, just as you can turn it on and off now.

 

[Canterwood]

Glad to see they're going back to the old way of just doing security patches and hotfixes in a service pack.

 

[nerp]

The search aspect being removed is only that search "button".

Desktop search and the searching within the menu isn't going away. THAT would be ridiculous.

 

[nerp]

After reading the article in full, there's not much in there that we don't know already. And like other posters have said, I like the fact that the service pack is more of an update rollup than a new "version" of the OS with new features that requires breaking a lot of apps. Of course, we're getting a 'new' kernel with it, but as the article explains, this is low level stuff that really doesn't change the way the OS looks, feels and runs by any large measure.

The most important part of the article to me, (and flies in the face of a lot of the people on this forum who have been chanting "wait for SP1" etc) is this:

"Home users shouldn't wait," Zipkin said. "The Vista user experience isn't changing with SP1, and compatibility is improving on an ongoing basis. We've got stuff coming down the pike that will hit well before SP1." There are also a number of out-of-band functional improvements to Vista that are happening outside the SP1 track that will significantly increase Vista's appear to consumers. I'm thinking of Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Mail specifically, both of which expand dramatically on capabilities that are built into Vista.

Corporations, Microsoft says, are already moving to Vista, and the arrival of SP1 shouldn't change anything. "Our business customers already have the tools and guidance they need to deploy Vista," Zipkin said. "Some are waiting to deploy, but they can do some pre-SP1 work to hit the ground running. They can begin application compatibility testing on the SP1 beta or Vista gold [RTM] code, as the compatibility picture isn't changing. There are architectural changes moving from XP to Vista, but that's a remediation you will need to make with SP1 too." Microsoft is planning a "fairly broad" SP1 release candidate for later this year and expects many businesses to start pilots at that time. "There's no need to stall things because of SP1," Zipkin said."

 

[gizbug]

I've had no issues with SP1 Beta at all. Runs great

 

[bigi]

His site is one of the hardest to read I've seen. Supersite ? Please!

 

[stash]

Originally posted by: bigi
His site is one of the hardest to read I've seen. Supersite ? Please!

That's because he spends most of his articles patting himself on the back for getting a "scoop"

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: stash

Originally posted by: bigi
His site is one of the hardest to read I've seen. Supersite ? Please!

That's because he spends most of his articles patting himself on the back for getting a "scoop"

You have to admit that he's the best source out there for basic information on new Windows stuff. It's always well written and usually first.

 

[gizbug]

I'm surprised there is not much talk on here about SP1 beta. I think it runs great on Vista 64.
Must not have a lot of beta testers on this forum.

 

[stash]

Must not have a lot of beta testers on this forum.

Or perhaps they respect their NDAs. The ones that are legit beta testers, that is, not the ones who installed leaked torrents.

 

[gizbug]

beta is beta.
Anyways, regardless of what mr police officer said, it runs great.

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: gizbug
I'm surprised there is not much talk on here about SP1 beta. I think it runs great on Vista 64.
Must not have a lot of beta testers on this forum.

For what it's worth I haven't had any issues on my laptop (x86), explorer seems to be 'snappier' since installing but that could just as well be the placebo effect.

I haven't been able to install it on my x64 Ultimate desktop, installer keeps erroring out. I'm having issues with another MSFT update on that box also and have been trying to identify whether it's an isolated issue or not.

Of course (as stash mentioned) I'm not going to be posting my bug reports or trying to get support for them here; there are legitimate (and more effective) channels than AT for that kind of thing.

Erik