Windows Vista SP1 Nears Completion

Microsoft has sent Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to manufacturing today. SP1 is intended to address some of the concerns that users of Microsoft’s newest operating system have encountered including, but not limited to: slow file copy times, slow return from sleep, and device driver conflicts.

SP1 will be pre-installed on new OEM computers in the next several month, according to a blog post by Mike Nash from Microsoft’s Windows product management group.

The Service Pack should release to current users of Vista in mid-March via Windows Update. Apparently the new Service Pack can cause some driver conflicts with devices that may currently be functioning with Vista. In theory, Windows Update will identify these problem devices and not prompt users to install the service pack if they have incompatible devices installed.

I’ll post more about this as news develops and the release date gets closer. Thanks to this post for alerting me to the upcoming release.