Vista Service Pack Coming in Fall
- April 20th, 2007
- 2 Comments
Holding off buying a Vista PC or waiting to roll Vista out in your enterprise solution?
According to Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel, a Vista Service Pack should launch in October or November, letting slip one of Microsoft’s most closely guarded secrets.
See, folks don’t like to buy new software. Just ask the folks who are waiting patiently for Windows XP to really get rock solid before they replace their Windows 2000 servers. By naming a time and date of SP1’s coming, they’re essentially giving everyone a chance not to buy the product right now and instead wait a few months until SP1 drops. Clever folks, those computer users.
Otellini let the news slip in a financial conference call, which will probably earn him a trip to Redmond’s special re-education camp high on top of Gates’ skull-shaped castle.
Intel CEO Says Vista Service Pack To Be Released October Or November [Intel]
Sascha (Who am I?)
1 year ago
“one of Microsoft’s most closely guarded secrets”??? John, puh-lease!
Pretty much since Vista has been released they have been saying that the Service Pack release would coincide with the release of Vista Server, which as we all know is targeted for the fourth quarter of the year. Sure, some high-ranking execs have tried to blur the timeframe so that Microsoft wouldn’t look so bad (again) if they missed the deadline (again), but pretty much any Microsoft employee who would give presentations at any of the numerous developer conferences over the last couple of months did openly confirm the October/November timeframe.
I don’t think Otellini or anybody else thought that any news were actually slipping through the cracks there.
David Mackey (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Looking forward to the SP release. Right now I think one of the main needs is in driver compatibility. My laptop has been dragging ever since a driver was applied after upgrading to Vista.