The first service pack for Windows Vista has been released.
Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) went onto Microsoft's Download Center Web site on Monday, fulfilling Microsoft's claim that it would be made available by mid March. According to Microsoft, the service pack will be pushed out via automatic updates to all Vista users next month.
Standalone installers for both versions of Vista, 32-bit and 64-bit, have been made available.
According to Web retailer Amazon, boxed copies of Windows Vista with SP1 will be available on Wednesday in the United States, and Amazon UK has the updated operating system listed for retail release on 4 April. However, Vista SP1 is available now from Microsoft's Download Center.
Vista SP1 is a roll-up of previous updates that have been pushed out to users of Microsoft's latest operating system since its release. The updates supposedly improve Vista's performance, but a prerequisite piece of software, labeled KB937287, had to be pulled by Microsoft in February as it caused problems with some third-party programs.
Microsoft had pegged mid March as the timeframe for SP1's release via the Windows Update site, with the service pack due to be automatically pushed out to users in April. The pack was released to manufacturing on 4 February. The main features expected in SP1 are fixes to avoid incompatibilities with certain applications, as well as better reliability, security and performance.
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