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Windows Vista Service Pack: No Major Changes


By David Worthington
August 31, 2007 — 
After weeks of leaked build numbers on the Web and without substantive information, Microsoft this week opened up about Windows Vista’s first Service Pack 1 and one for Windows XP that will probably represent the final roll-up for Vista’s predecessor.

A white paper published by Windows Team member Brandon LeBlanc informed customers to expect improvements to performance, reliability and security in Vista SP1. Customers will not see any major new features, but Microsoft will improve performance of the desktop shell.

One thing customers will not see is any significant modification to Windows Vista’s User Account Control security feature.

According to a U.S. Department of Justice status report, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will implement measures to resolve industry complaints that Windows Vista's "Instant Search" desktop search feature throttled competing search engines.

Windows Vista SP1 is due for release in Q1 2008, and a beta will be delivered to a select group of 10,000 to 15,000 testers in mid-September. The standalone update is expected to weigh in at a hefty 1GB, because all supported languages will be included in a single download.

The third service pack for Windows XP is being developed concurrently with Windows Vista SP1. Microsoft has indicated that SP3 will establish a new baseline for the aging operating system, bringing together many fixes released in the years since SP2 was released, in August 2004. It will include Network Access Protection, a security mechanism that is included in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. Its final availability is scheduled for the first half of 2008, following a beta cycle beginning in mid-September.


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