Windows Vista SP1 Ships Next Week

Now that Windows 7 has a tentative launch-date, does Vista’s SP1 launch seem so meh now? No? Then you’ll be happy to know that the official launch for the new service-pack will occur next week. It will not become available through Windows built-in updater until April, however.

The latter method is the one I’ll take. Not that I don’t trust SP1, but I’m sure many others will be jumping on the bandwagon early and noticeable problems will become evident quick, swaying me even further from upgrading. If that’s not the case, then we can all feel more confident once it becomes available through Windows Update.

If you are at work or have some time to kill, you can read the lengthy page on what’s new in SP1 over at the official site.

On March 18, Microsoft will post to its download site the manual installer for Vista SP1. This will be a big one, several hundred megabytes in size. On the Vista upgrade disk Microsoft sent me, it weighs in at over 400 MB. If you wait a month or so, Microsoft will deliver SP1 in April via Windows Update.

Source: TechBlog, Via: Download Squad