Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Windows Vista SP1 Hits Windows Update Today
Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home News" @ 11:24 AM
"Today, you can now download Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update. For those of you eager to receive the benefits of Windows Vista SP1 - you can now do so! We've seen quite a bit of questions in our comments so we want to communicate as much as possible surrounding Windows Vista SP1 and today's release to Windows Update as we can. For those of you happy to wait - sit tight because SP1 will start downloading to PCs automatically beginning in mid-April (Remember, this happens only if you have your Windows Update configured to automatically download updates and SP1 will automatically download but not automatically install). But if you want to get the benefit of a year's worth of improvements right now, go check Windows Update today...(Hit the Start Menu, All Programs, and select Windows Update). If in running Windows Update you do not see Windows Vista SP1 listed, there are a number of good reasons for this (Eight in fact, see the whole list)."
It's here - it's finally here! For many people, the release of a service pack is when they start seriously considering a Microsoft operating system. Myself, I've been running Vista on every system I own (save one small laptop) since January 2007, and for the most part Vista works great. I copy files back and forth a lot and Vista's copying performance was truly suck-tastic, but it's now much improved with SP1. Ars Technica has a great article on all the things that have been changed, so give that a read if you're curious. I've been slowly putting SP1 on all my computers over the past couple of weeks (I got SP1 from MSDN), and with one exception, it's gone on smoothly. The one exception? My Dell XPS M1330. The error message it gave me was quite unhelpful, so I'm going to try again in a couple of weeks and see if Windows Update has any goodness for me. Any other XPS M1330 users out there having trouble getting SP1 installed?
It's here - it's finally here! For many people, the release of a service pack is when they start seriously considering a Microsoft operating system. Myself, I've been running Vista on every system I own (save one small laptop) since January 2007, and for the most part Vista works great. I copy files back and forth a lot and Vista's copying performance was truly suck-tastic, but it's now much improved with SP1. Ars Technica has a great article on all the things that have been changed, so give that a read if you're curious. I've been slowly putting SP1 on all my computers over the past couple of weeks (I got SP1 from MSDN), and with one exception, it's gone on smoothly. The one exception? My Dell XPS M1330. The error message it gave me was quite unhelpful, so I'm going to try again in a couple of weeks and see if Windows Update has any goodness for me. Any other XPS M1330 users out there having trouble getting SP1 installed?
