Is Windows Vista Service Pack 1 coming out soon?
says that “Microsoft anticipates that beta code will be available by the end of the year.” That could push Service Pack 1 into next year.
Last year, Microsoft’s Bob Muglia suggested it would appear with Windows Server 2008, codenamed Longhorn. This is at the beta 3 stage of testing, and already in use on Microsoft.com. Both Vista and Server 2008 are based on the same code base: Server 2003. The Longhorn development continued, of course, after Vista shipped on November 30. Improvements to Server 2008 could be rolled up with this year’s patches to create Vista SP1. Everyone liked that idea.
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