Annoncer le RTM de Windows Vista SP1
Bonjour, Mike Nash ici du groupe de gestion du produit de Windows chez Microsoft. Aujourd'hui nous sommes excités pour annoncer que nous avons libéré le paquet 1 de service pour Windows Vista à la fabrication (RTM) pour notre premier ensemble de langues (anglais, français, espagnol, allemand et japonais).
Le paquet 1 de service est une étape importante très importante parce qu'il adresse beaucoup des questions principales que nos clients ont identifiées avec Windows Vista au cours de la dernière année, directement et par des programmes comme le programme d'amélioration d'expérience de client. Avec le paquet 1 de service, nous avons accompli le grand progrès dans l'exécution, la fiabilité et la compatibilité. Une des grandes choses au sujet de mon travail est que j'obtiens de jouer avec les dernières constructions de nos produits - je personnellement avais couru Windows Vista SP1 assez exclusivement pendant quelques mois et j'ai noté que mes systèmes fonctionnent plus rapidement et plus sûrement qu'ils ai fait avec le dégagement de « or » de Windows Vista.
Quand nous avons libéré la première fois l'année dernière Windows Vista, il y avait un bon nombre de clients qui ont eu de grandes expériences, mais certains ont eu des questions trouver les applications qui ont bien fonctionné sur Windows Vista ; d'autres ont eu des problèmes trouver les modules de gestion de périphérique droits pour certains des dispositifs câblés qu'elles ont utilisés. La raison de ces questions est qu'afin d'améliorer le sérieux et la sécurité de Windows Vista, nous avons fait quelques changements architecturaux importants au système. Tandis que ceci causait quelques questions à court terme, à long terme nous savons que ces investissements amélioreront la fiabilité et la sécurité de l'expérience de client sur Windows. Contrôle dehors ce poteau de blog au sujet de la première année de la sécurité de Windows Vista pour voir comment certains de ces changements payent au loin.
Les bonnes nouvelles sont que cette dernière année a été une grande année de progrès pour Windows Vista en termes d'améliorer la compatibilité d'application et de dispositif. Par exemple, 98 sur les 100 applications de dessus-vente ont des versions disponibles pour Windows Vista. Et par le grand travail de nos associés de matériel, nous faisons maintenant soutenir 78.000 dispositifs et composants par Windows Update, à partir environ de 34.000 en novembre 2006. En conséquence, nous avons autorisé plus de 100 millions de copies de Windows Vista jusqu'ici.
Le paquet 1 de service apporte les nouvelles améliorations qui sont basées sur la rétroaction que nous avons reçue des nouvelles nos clients. Il améliore plus loin le sérieux et l'exécution de Windows Vista. The information we collect thanks to tools like the Customer Experience Improvement Program, Online Crash Analysis, and Windows Error Reporting help us learn about where and when customers are having issues with Windows Vista and the applications that run on it. Since these issues have a direct impact on our customers’ experiences, we’ve invested time and energy to make this better. While Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is an important milestone, we will continue to invest in the continuous improvement process.
SP1 also includes changes focused on improving the performance of Windows Vista in areas that impact the customer experience the most. For instance, with SP1, copying or moving files around your PC, your home network or your corporate network should now be much faster — up to 50% faster in some scenarios (according to our internal tests). In addition, on many kinds of hardware, resuming a Windows Vista-based PC from sleep is faster on Service Pack 1.
The key learning over the last year is that when we change the operating system, it takes time to let the ecosystem make sure that the hardware and software that they build works well with Windows Vista. So as we release Windows Vista SP1 to manufacturing, we are going to be thoughtful about when and how it gets distributed.
With today’s RTM of SP1, a number of processes kick off as we deliver the update to customers. Our OEM partners will get SP1 and start producing new PCs running Windows Vista with SP1 pre-installed. We will also start the manufacturing process for retail product of Windows Vista with SP1. Both will be available in stores for new Windows Vista customers in the coming months. Today we also start the process to manufacture DVDs for our enterprise customers who get our software via our Volume Licensing program.
As we update our customers to SP1, we want everyone to have a great install experience. We are going to stage our rollout of SP1 for current Windows Vista users to be approximately concurrent with the availability of Windows Vista SP1 on new PCs and in stores. There are a couple of reasons for this. Our beta testing identified an issue with a small set of device drivers. These drivers do not follow our guidelines for driver installation and as a result, some beta participants who were using Windows Vista and updated to Service Pack 1 reported issues with these devices. Because the issue was with the way the drivers were installed and not the drivers themselves, the solution was simply to reinstall the drivers. While this worked fine for our more technical beta testers, we want to deliver a better experience for customers as we make the update broadly available.
While we know that most customers who update from Windows Vista to SP1 will NOT be affected, our approach is to improve the experience for all our customers. To do this, we will begin making SP1 available through Windows Update in mid-March, giving us time to work with some of our hardware partners to make adjustments to the installation process for the affected drivers. As SP1 gets delivered through Windows Update, we will only offer it to PCs that we detect don’t have any of the affected device drivers installed. We’re taking the next month or so to continue our work of identifying as many of these devices as possible.
Here’s the timing for SP1 availability for current Windows Vista users:
- In mid-March, we will release Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Update (in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese) and to the download center on microsoft.com. Customers who visit Windows Update can choose to install Service Pack 1. If Windows Update determines that the system has one of the drivers we know to be problematic, then Windows Update will not offer SP1. Since we know that some customers may want to update to SP1 anyhow, the download center will allow anyone who wants to install SP1 to do so.
- In mid-April, we will begin delivering Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Vista customers who have chosen to have updates downloaded automatically. That said, any system that Windows Update determines has a driver known to not update successfully will not get SP1 automatically. As updates for these drivers become available, they will be installed automatically by Windows Update, which will unblock these systems from getting Service Pack 1. The result is that more and more systems will automatically get SP1, but only when we are confident they will have a good experience.
- The remaining languages will RTM in April.
New customers should feel great about buying Windows Vista today, knowing that when everything is ready, SP1 will be available to them via Windows Update. In the meantime, remember that you can take advantage of the benefits of Windows Vista (including many improvements delivered via Windows Update) even without Service Pack 1.
This is an important milestone for our current and future Windows Vista customers around the world. I want to take a minute to thank our customers for their feedback on Windows Vista and the beta of Service Pack 1. I also want to thank our hardware and software partners for their continued efforts to deliver the best experiences on Windows Vista.
-Mike
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