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Vista Service Pack 1 in the Works

By Scott Gilbertson January 23, 2007 Categories: Operating Systems

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Microsoft’s next operating system hasn’t even officially arrived yet, and already the company is working on fixes. The folks over at APC tell us that Microsoft is asking customers and partners to provide feedback for possible fixes and enhancements to be built into Service Pack 1.

So what’s going to be included? According to Microsoft, security fixes and other "high impact" solutions. APC also speculates that Vista SP1 will include Windows PowerShell, the new .NET-enabled command line app for admins, complete with its own language. (Seriously, what’s wrong with Bash?) Windows PowerShell for Vista is currently in release candidate stage.

Vista SP1 is due at the end of 2007, and its code name is "Fiji."

If you’re unfamiliar, Service Packs are sort of the 10,000-mile tune up of Microsoftland. The company has traditionally released these incremental OS updates in between major releases to provide critical patches. Windows XP, for example, is mostly useless without Service Pack 2 — it’s not secure and many newer applications won’t run on XP unless SP2 is installed.

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