Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1

Finally, beta white paper on Widows Vista Service Pack 1 has been released. But the release of RTM would be in the first quarter of 2008. So, what kind of updates will be there in Vista SP1? These updates can be broadly categorized as given below:
1. Quality improvement in terms of security, reliability and performance
2. Improvements to the administration experience including BitLocker Drive Encryption.
3. Support for emerging hardware and standards

In short, SP1 will deliver improvements and enhancements to existing features, but it does not deliver any new OS features as such. For example: It will improve the performance of desktop shell but it does not provide new search user interface.

So, let’s wait patiently until SP1 is released. My guess is that SP1 would come hand in hand with Windows Server 2008 in the next year. MSDN subscribers and partners might get the preview of SP1 later this year.

Cheers,
Amol