Vista SP1 release scheduled

On Aug 29, 2007, Microsoft Corp. finally put out details of Service Pack 1(SP1), the long-awaited first major upgrade of the operating system that the company released in January. SP1, as it's known, will be available to the public in the first quarter of 2008; the 50 MB upgrade will come to Vista users as a download. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will be released to more than 10,000 beta testers in the next few weeks.

SP1 will bring improvements in security, reliability, performance, and system administration, and it will roll together bug fixes and other updates that have been issued in the seven months since Vista's launch. One thing it doesn't include: major new features. "This is not a feature delivery vehicle," says David Zipkin, a Microsoft senior product manager.