Yawn.......but seriously those who like fixing broken new overpriced O/S' I thought you might be intersested in becomming a M$ lacky and make more money for the giant at your expense.

Anyway...

It’s official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft.

Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista — not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end — the company is set to deliver Beta 1 of Vista SP1 in mid-July.

Word (from various sources who asked not to be named) is Microsoft is gearing up to drop Vista SP1 some time the week of July 16. And despite what Microsoft seemingly led Google, the U.S. Department of Justice and other company watchers to believe, the final version of Vista SP1 is sounding like November 2007.

Article here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p...

Any Society That Would Give Up Essential Liberty For Temporary Security Will Lose Both & Deserve Neither.

Every OS is served broken. The day they don't begin when pigs take to flight ..... LOL

I don't know what the tantrum about Vista SP1 is.
Broadband connection isn't as uncommon as it once was, making it plausible for patches catalogued within the package to be distributed incrementally via Windows Update & WSUS. As a matter of fact, I'd rather have it that way that downloading & installing a moderate or huge SP.

As far as cost goes .... I don't see how Vista is allegedly rigidly overpriced. AFAIK, anyone can pickup a copy of the Ultimate DVD for less than $200. It is even more affordable for someone -- probably more like most -- going for a lower rung variant of the OS.

Even AAPL's -- OS X Leopard -- subliminal pricing shot at M$' Vista is nothing short of cognitive dissonance, considering it is from the same company hawking the iPhone. I'm not even going to go into details about that atrocious Safari they have the galls to refer to as a better browser to what's prevailing on PC' worldwide.

Vista isn't perfect & no OS will ever be. But IMHO, it is far from being something dredged from the "ME" quarry.

The way I see it - it's part of a secret M$ strategy. No one outside Redmond knows what they are up to.

One thing I can tell you is that absolutelty no one should download, install & run Vista SP1 beta because if something goes haywired you're all alone on your own with no support from M$ and the OEM system builder. In hindsight I wish M$ was generous enough to release XP SP3 in lieu of Vista SP1 beta.

i_XpUser

Well It's about time MS is addressing the ReadyBoost problem.

Yep they are working on it (see link below) - you wanna be M$'s guinea pig & test it for them?

Vista SP1 will fix critical ReadyBoost performance bug

i_XpUser

It's all god to me i hope it becomes open to the public that's really the only way things get fixed with MS products. :)

http://www.computershopper.co.uk/sh...

In terms of what happened to XP and most earlier versions of IE, I shall wait until SP2 anyhow.

DerekW