Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to Be Released Next Year

The Microsoft Corporation finally announced news about the launch of the heavily expected Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista. Officials declared that the final touches will be made in time for the launch of Service Pack one in the first trimester of the next year.

The company has also announced that it will make available the beta version for a number of 10,000 to 15,000 testers in the following month. This beta release is expected to fix the unknown problems that may exist in the patch so that when the official release is made, users will not encounter any problems.

Service Pack 1 will include system updates developed strictly for solving problems that showed up in bugs that were discovered, and also to improve the performance of the operating system. Service Pack 1 is also developed in order to ensure the security of the operating system, and in the same time to make sure that the Windows Vista software is completely compatible, said David Zipkin, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Corporation.

Windows XP will also have part of an improvement in the following weeks, when Microsoft will launch the third Service Pack for this operating system. Windows Service Pack 3, will be the last update in the form of a service pack for the Windows XP Home and Professional operating systems, and will include previously launched updates, but also a number of new fixes for the discovered bugs.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will include 20 updates, that were already launched using the Microsoft update system, but new updates too. In total, hundreds of Vista files will be changed as part of an improvement brought to the operating system, said Zipkin.

Microsoft will deliver to users of Windows Vista the Service Pack 1 using the Automatic Updates system.

At the moment, Microsoft has 60 million Windows Vista licenses sold for personal consumers, and 42 million licenses sold to companies.

With Windows Vista, the Microsoft Corporation hopes that it will finally clear the bad name it left for Windows, starting with the Windows 98 blue screens, that have been a disaster for the operating systems reputation starting when it was officially launched, because even then, a blue screen showed up when Bill Gates plugged in a scanner in the USB drive.

Unfortunately this operating system, Windows Vista, was also launched too soon, probably from competition reasons, and it has numerous bugs that were discovered only after the official release. With this Service Pack, Windows users are hoping in a major bug fix, and to have an operating system that they can truly enjoy using.

Source: Laptoping.com