Next week Microsoft released Vista SP1

On December 4, Microsoft said that the upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now in the Release Candidate phase, ready to be widely tested. It is expected that next week this version will be released to the public.

Previously, Vista SP1 Beta was "secretly" tested in a community of 15,000 Microsoft product testing programs. By December 5, Microsoft decided to expand the test participants to MSDN and TechNet service network members.

Vista SP1 will be automatically released to users via the automatic update feature. But like Windows XP SP2, Microsoft will also provide Vista users with a tool to prevent the installation of Vista beta from this time and wait until the version is officially released.

Normally, Service Pack 1 will only be a collection of bug fixes and improved operating system performance rather than adding new features. The biggest change in Vista SP1 is the features related to using BitLocker encryption on a variety of hard drives and changes in the search feature directly on the PC.

In addition, Microsoft said that the anti-piracy feature in Vista will also change significantly with SP1. Accordingly, systems that use Vista piracy will not be completely disabled, as users are still allowed to access the system but only use the basic features.

In addition, since the official confirmation of the existence of SP1 SP1, Microsoft has also made many major changes in this update. The first is to minimize the capacity of the update and reduce the amount of available hard disk space needed to install the update.

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