Windows Vista SP1 To Be Released In a Week

Vista’s first service pack wasn’t due out until later this year, but Mary Jo Foley tells us that we should be expecting it in just a weeks time. Most of the fixes will be performance related, including both the slow file copying and slow shutdown, the latter of which Microsoft claimed to have not existed. If anything, I am hoping SP1 will make the Vista experience a little smoother, and less crash-happy.

Microsoft’s Windows client team, under Director of Windows Engineering Steven Sinofsky, has adopted a much more restrictive information-flow policy. Instead of over-promising and under-delivering, Sinofsky wants the client team to do the opposite. To achieve this, the client team is attempting to institute Apple-like secrecy over anything pertaining to future Windows client directions.

Source: ZD Net