Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing

Reverend Ninja writes "According to the Windows Vista team blog, Windows Vista SP1 has been released to manufacturing. It appears we'll have to wait until mid-March to play with it though, as the team cites that they want everyone to have a 'great install experience'. 'Service Pack 1 brings new improvements that are based on feedback we heard from our customers. It further improves the reliability and performance of Windows Vista. The information we collect thanks to tools like the Customer Experience Improvement Program, Online Crash Analysis, and Windows Error Reporting help us learn about where and when customers are having issues with Windows Vista and the applications that run on it. Since these issues have a direct impact on our customers' experiences, we've invested time and energy to make this better. While Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is an important milestone, we will continue to invest in the continuous improvement process.'"

Ok, so where's the link

[Paktu]

IIRC, torrents of Windows Vista appeared within about fifteen minutes of the RTM. Anyone have a link to SP1?

Re:Slashdot users rape babies

[frankthechicken]

Hey, I like raping babies as much as the next person, but on wheels? You need to get with the Microsoft program and make your install process smoother.

50% Faster?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ars Technica [arstechnica.com] claims that file copies are now 50% faster in SP1.

It should only take 65 and a half years, instead of 131 [theregister.co.uk], to copy 168 Mb of pictures now. What a great feature! :-)

Re:I'm tired of the euphemisms

[Anonymous Coward]

I always smear Crisco on my lover's asshole, because I want him to have a 'great install experience'.

Default settings

[edwardpickman]

1 Uninstall Firefox

2 Uninstall iTunes and any non Windows players

3 Uninstall Open Office

4 Update Vista

5 Max Firewall settings

Re:I'm tired of the euphemisms

[Anonymous Coward]

I always smear Crisco on my lover's asshole, because I want him to have a 'great install experience'.

Have you had any major issues with Leopard? How's the iPhone working out?

2 SPs in, 1 SP out, WINDOWS CAGE MATCH '08

[davidwr]

This week on WWE RAW we have the fight-to-the-death match of the century - brother against brother - OS against OS.

Will the newly-upgraded Microsoft XP Service Pack 3 be able to take on its younger brother Vista with Service Pack 1 or will it be too old in the tooth to stand up to its sibling?

In a fight scheduled to go several years and refereed by IT managers worldwide with the bragging rights of the very name "Windows" on the line, the world will find out which is the better OS.

Stay tuned for

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3
vs.
Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1

this week on WWE Raw.

Re:I'm tired of the euphemisms

[Anonymous Coward]

and names like chicago, whistler, blackcomb and longhorn are a whole lot better?

Re:Hard Evidence Of Vista Poor Sales and Performan

[MrMr]

I personally have experienced none of the problems you mention.
In fact, I haven't had any problems with XP, 2000, NT, CE, 98, 95, 3.11, 3.1, 3.0, DOS 3.3 either.

Reading the infospeak

[SlowMovingTarget]

OK, so I'm trying to read the press announcement and my eyes keep glazing over. What I get is this:

Service Pack 1 wank wank wank wank, wank-wank, wank-wank-wank. Wank wank new OnLine Blame Casting System wank wank, synergy wank-wank going forward.

I really just want to know if they include the flying chairs screen saver. Although granted, Vista's DRM will kick in and turn the screen blank...

Re:I'm tired of the euphemisms

[kongit]

They told me the name of the OS I am using is Gutsy Gibbon. I tend to differ. I call my OS GLaDOS. I have had a great install experience and I am still alive. Now excuse me I need a piece of cake.

Re:Removed the DRM?

[ozphx]

And how do you know that the Reduced functionality mode is actually gone?

I'll check back with my mate Chris. :)

Chris: Fucking Vista! Its gone into reduced functionality mode and says I have a pirated version!
Me: Chris, you do have a pirated version.
Chris: Well..... fuck.

Re:Question for dev team

[Anonymous Coward]

Good question. But what exactly is a "great install experience" according to Microsoft? Watching a progress bar gradually creep further with a bag of popcorn and your beverage of choice? Hot ladies / men thrown in? A band playing in the background?

Re:Ok, so where's the link

[PhxBlue]

Anyone have a link to SP1?

Yes.

Re:I'm tired of the euphemisms

[kilgortrout]

Excuse me, we have neither a "mission" of a "vision"; we at Dumass Corporation have a "Passion".

Re:I'm tired of the euphemisms

[webmaster404]

Never noticed it. Doesn't affect me one iota. And hey, if I do want to watch a DRM'd movie, guess what? I can! You ire should be directed at the movie studios that wanted MS to add the DRM in the first place.

DRM results in far more then a lack of freedom, it results in higher hardware requirements which boost the requirements even more then it already needs to be and I am sure that you have noticed it, not just in not being able to copy but in slower performance and higher hardware costs. As for the movie studios, where else are they going to turn if MS doesn't include DRM? Apple still has minority share and loses many of it's fans if it goes mainstream, no one running Linux is going to want DRM and what does that leave? Some Unix systems? Really if MS had said no where else would the studios turn and it really isn't that MS doesn't have enough marketshare/money to defend themselves there a monopoly, they make it seem like "everyone else made us do it" when it is a design flaw by them.

Hmm, never had much issue with this either and I do play quite a few old games. You could always try installing DOS into a virtual machine. I believe that VMWare is free now, although I personally use Microsoft Virtual PC and find that it works wonderfully. Also, IIRC you can even download DR-DOS for free to install into your free VM!

Really though, that's not still a good reason to break it just because there are other options, it seems to be highlighting one of the major flaws of Vista breaking things for no good reason even though there are ways around it it still is a stupid flaw.

I have used Vista before and I have to say that it is by far the worst OS I have ever used (No I haven't used ME) its slow, bloated and DRMed, just because you don't have a problem with it doesn't mean that millions of others (if there are millions using Vista) don't have problems with it.

Bwahaha.

[crovira]

"Not that it'll be bug free... I'm sure it will be ridden with mistakes and problems, accidental and deliberate. But it won't be because of lack of effort. I'm sure some Microsoft employees have poured their heart into this thing."

Just because you use a gold plated wide-mouth container for carting "night soil" doesn't mean you not hauling a bucket full 'o stinking shit.

Keerist. I've been hearing about Vista for YEARS, how it was going to be the 'be all and end all' and now they have to TWEAK it?

Linux has episodic incremental releases.

OS X has episodic incremental releases.

Windows has "events".

What unmitigated bullshit.

Re:I'm tired of the euphemisms

[SL Baur]

In short, STFU and get a clue.

I believe! I believe! brother Microsoftie. I believe!

Thank God! I'll finally be able to install a real O/S soon on my machines. I'm so sick and tired of machines never crashing it makes me want to hurl. Soon, it's Goodbye Forever to boring Mac OS X and Linux. What kind of stupid O/S never crashes, runs fast and does exactly what you want it to?

If Jesus were around now, He would be running Microsoft Vista SP1. Oh dear God, yes! I believe! I realize how stupid, how completely and totally stupid I've been. I can only beg forgiveness and hope that by purging my machines of alien O/Ses that I will somehow cleanse away the stain on my soul, the stain caused by not recognizing The Greatness of Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 earlier.