Anunciando o RTM de Windows Vista SP1
Hi, microfone Nash aqui do grupo de gerência do produto de Windows em Microsoft. Nós somos excitados hoje para anunciar que nós liberamos o bloco 1 do serviço para Windows Vista ao manufacturing (RTM) para nosso primeiro jogo das línguas (inglês, francês, espanhol, alemão e japonês).
O bloco 1 do serviço é um marco miliário muito importante porque se dirige a muitos das edições chaves que nossos clientes identificaram com Windows Vista sobre o ano passado, diretamente e com os programas como o programa de melhoria da experiência do cliente. Com bloco 1 do serviço, nós fizemos o progresso grande no desempenho, na confiabilidade e na compatibilidade. Uma das coisas grandes sobre meu trabalho é que eu começo jogar com as configurações as mais atrasadas de nossos produtos - eu tenho funcionado pessoalmente Windows Vista SP1 consideravelmente exclusivamente por alguns meses e eu observei que meus sistemas funcionam mais rapidamente e mais confiantemente do que eles fiz com a liberação do “ouro” de Windows Vista.
Quando nós liberamos primeiramente Windows Vista o ano passado, havia uns lotes dos clientes que tiveram experiências grandes, mas alguns tiveram edições encontrar as aplicações que trabalharam bem em Windows Vista; outros tiveram problemas encontrar os excitadores de dispositivo direitos para alguns dos dispositivos de ferragem que usaram. A razão para estas edições é que a fim melhorar a confiabilidade e a segurança de Windows Vista, nós fizemos algumas mudanças architectural importantes ao sistema. Quando isto causou algumas edições no a curto prazo, no prazo nós sabemos que estes investimentos melhorarão a confiabilidade e a segurança da experiência do cliente em Windows. Verificação para fora este borne do blog sobre o primeiro ano da segurança de Windows Vista para ver como algumas destas mudanças estão pagando fora.
A notícia boa é que este ano passado foi um ano grande do progresso para Windows Vista nos termos de melhorar a compatibilidade da aplicação e do dispositivo. Por exemplo, 98 fora das 100 aplicações alto-vendendo têm as versões disponíveis para Windows Vista. E através do trabalho grande de nossos sócios da ferragem, nós temos agora 78.000 dispositivos e componentes suportados por Windows Update, acima de aproximadamente 34.000 em novembro 2006. Em conseqüência, nós licenciamos sobre 100 milhão cópias de Windows Vista para datar.
O bloco 1 do serviço traz as melhorias novas que são baseadas no gabarito que nós nos ouvimos de nossos clientes. Melhora mais mais a confiabilidade e o desempenho 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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