November 16, 2007

Microsoft releases Vista service pack

by Jan Harris

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Microsoft releases Vista service pack
Microsoft has released Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate Preview to around 15,000 private beta testers, and plans to extend this to a broader group of testers.

The company is on schedule to release the service pack for commercial use in the first quarter of 2008.

So far, testers seem positive about the upgrade, which is said to provide better laptop battery life, faster networking, and improved wake-from-sleep speeds.

A new report by Forrester Research suggests that the adoption of Vista by enterprise users, which has been slow so far, could be about to gain momentum.

Forrester expects deployments among many enterprises to be underway by late-2008 and to accelerate rapidly from then onwards.

Forrester’s study found that only 3% of PCs in North American and Global 2000 enterprises run Windows Vista, while the use of the Operating System in Europe in negligible.

However, 7% of respondents to the study plan to deploy Vista by the end of 2007, while 32% plan to start deploying the operating system by the end of 2008. A further 17% plan to roll out Vista in 2009 or beyond.

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