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Thursday, August 30, 2007
Upgrade to Vista planned for 2008
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For those of you waiting for Service Pack 1 before buying Windows Vista - plan on waiting a bit longer. The official word is finally in. SP1 will be released in early 2008.
Most of you who read this blog know what a Service Pack is - a collection of fixes, changes and tweaks all in one software package. With Microsoft XP, Service Pack 2 was a huge deal - almost like a new version of XP. That won’t be the case with SP1 for Vista apparently. You can read about some of the plans for it by clicking here.
Microsoft is downplaying the weight of SP1 since business traditionally wait for the first service pack before installing a major new operating system. Microsoft would be happy for businesses, and consumers, to upgrade now.
I remember, when Vista first came out, telling readers to wait for the service pack. I’m not sure that’s necessary now. But waiting can still make sense. Vista requires so much more power and - to my way of thinking - twice the RAM memory. So if your machine is doing fine with XP and you want to avoid the possibility of changing the videocard and adding RAM - then just wait until you buy a new more powerful PC.
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