I reported a while back that it was coming, and now it’s here. Microsoft released today Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) for public download. Current users of Vista should use Windows Update to retrieve and install the download.

I’m just reporting here. I don’t have Vista installed on anything to test it out. Enjoy.

Oh…I can’t help it. If you’re thinking about getting Vista, you might just want to click here instead.

I can’t seem to give it up. My favorite web browser is still Safari.

I know, I know… Firefox is more widely used, Opera has that cool “speed-dial” thingy, but I love Mac. And I love iLife integration. And I love trying to use Apple applications for everything I can. (I’m still holding strong with Aperture!)

Anyway, this morning, Apple made version 3.1 of Safari available for free download. It’s available for both PC and Mac here.

One of my favorite new features (I haven’t spent much time exploring yet) is the Develop menu that can be activated in the program’s preferences. As a web developer, it allows me to quickly analyze a page’s scripts, CSS, image elements, etc, and compare their performance in different browsers. Previously, I’d used the Web Developer extension in Firefox for this purpose.

The detailed documentation on Safari 3.1 from Apple is available here.

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.