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Vista SP1 Aug 29, 2007 - Sheri Bloor - Permalink

Microsoft, hoping to grab the attention of corporate technology departments, is announcing this morning that it's releasing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 in preliminary form in the next few weeks, and in final form in the first quarter of next year. The company had previously been extraordinarily tight-lipped about the timing of Vista SP1, and its contents.

"We're really viewing it as not a feature delivery vehicle but a way to fix some existing issues and enhance a few features, some capabilities that are already in the OS," said David Zipkin, a Microsoft senior product manager, in a phone interview.

For example, Zipkin said, SP1 will address Windows Vista performance problems including sluggish copying and unzipping of files; slowness in resuming from hibernate and standby; and a delay that some users experience when hitting Control-Alt-Delete to log in. Microsoft is also trying to make Windows Vista more reliable, using error reporting data to determine the "highest-impact" issues, he said.

Among other things, the company says the service pack will include support for the exFAT file system, for mobile devices. SP1 will also expand BitLocker encryption to local hard drives other than the C drive. And it will include Windows Vista security patches and other updates issued since the operating system was released.

Starting in early August, beta versions of Windows Vista SP1 started to appear on BitTorrent sites such as Pirate Bay. Over the Aug. 24 weekend, a new beta has appeared on the BitTorrent sites.

The first beta SP1 appeared on hacker sites in early August as a 3.2 GB DVD ISO. This version could only be used to install a full version of Windows Vista. As such, it was not so much an SP as a testing platform for some proposed patches. The just-leaked version, however, expands from a compressed file of about 200 MB in size, depending on the system architecture, into an installation program that totals approximately 684 MB. With it, an adventuresome Vista user could use it to update his or her's Vista-powered system to a beta SP1.

This beta is labeled "Vista updates installer 32bit-Pre-sp1-Aug25th-2007." There is also a x64 version named "Vista 64bit (x64)Updates installer sp1 preview August 24th 2007." Both versions describe themselves as "The Vista Performance, Compatibility and Reliability Pack." Besides updates to Vista, the patch also includes recent versions of Adobe Flash Player and Sun Java.

A closer look reveals that, regardless of platform, the beta is named: "Build: 6.0.6001.16633 (longhorn.070803-1655)." When installed, at least one patched version of Vista Ultimate states that the system is running Vista Ultimate, Service Patch 1, v.165.

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