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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master

NRT-0219 Vista SP1 (and XP SP3):

It's unusual, but confirmation of the availability of Windows VISTA's first service pack came Tuesday 19JUN not from Microsoft, but from the US Department of Justice. Tucked into the government's 27-page joint status settlement report released late Tuesday was evidence that Microsoft will put the beta of VISTA SP1 into users' hands before the end of the year. The report also confirmed Windows XP SP3, but did not specify beta or final release dates, although it said some code would be finalized this summer. Microsoft has been loath to talk about either service pack, but has been particularly mum about Windows VISTA SP1, a widely anticipated bug update that some enterprise users are waiting on before deploying the new operating system. In the compromise struck between Microsoft and state and federal antitrust regulators, the company must make changes to VISTA's desktop search tool so users and OEMs can pick a default search and indexing program to replace VISTA's baked-in software for running Start Menu searches. The user- or OEM-selected default must also be an option in searches initiated from Windows Explorer or the Control Panel.

(ComputerWorld 20JUN07)

Last Modified: Saturday, 21-Jul-2007 10:18:54 EDT