Microsoft downplays the importance of first Windows Vista service pack, urging users to adopt the new operating system now, not later. As CNET's former resident security expert, Robert Vamosi has been ...

Microsoft Corp.’s legal team sent a cease-and-desist e-mail to a Web site owner who has posted more than 100 hot fixes he expects to be in the first Windows Vista service pack (SP1). The operator of ...

So, yesterday Microsoft announced that SP1 for Vista had gone RTM. This means that the first service pack for Windows Vista has been finalized and this is what we'll have to live with until we see SP2 ...

The new Release Candidate editions for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will be the last public test versions before their final releases next year. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Microsoft will end support for Windows XP Service Pack 1 and SP1a on Tuesday, leaving people no option but to upgrade to Service Pack 2 if they wish to continue to receive crucial components, ...

The service pack incorporates Windows XP SP1, including the .Net Framework and changes to the user interface as required by the company's antitrust settlement with the government. The SP1, announced ...