Mike Nash of the Windows Product Management at Microsoft has revealed that Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista has gone Gold and will be available from mid-March.

He indicates that improvements in SP1 include up to 50% faster speeds for transferring work between networked computers and faster resumption of Windows from ‘Sleep’ mode.

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.

No mention of any gaming centred updates or fixes, hopefully though SP1 will improve Vista gaming performance.

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.

That too is a good plan to only allow those who will experiance SP1 as it should be to download it.

More information here.

Tags: Service Pack, Vista

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