Those owners of Windows Vista who’ve not yet had the opportunity to manually install the operating system’s long-awaited Service Pack 1 (SP1) fix and patch update now need not bother as Microsoft has begun the process of automatic delivery.
Automatic download updates finally begin for Windows Vista SP1. Credit: Microsoft.
A spokeswoman for Microsoft this week announced that Vista users with the Windows Update feature set to automatic download and install are now in the pipeline to receive the SP1 package -- the auto introduction started this Wednesday just gone.
Much like any other Windows Update edition, the arrival of SP1 will specifically address a wide array of security and stability-related issues connected with the onboard operating system.
Following Microsoft’s general policy of phased introduction for the rollout of major updates, Service Pack 1 will not simply be flooded out to waiting Vista users en masse, but rather delivered in controlled stages.
Also, tech site Computerworld reports that the automatic delivery of SP1 will be restricted according to language at this point, with only the English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish versions initially catered for.
Of course, users of other foreign language versions of Vista can manually secure the update should they wish do so after Microsoft recently released all other (31) Vista SP1 language packs. Microsoft is expected to integrate the remaining SP1 language variants into the automatic update delivery system before the close of May.
Despite the more widespread availability, both manual and automatic, of Vista SP1, persistent device driver incompatibilities in relation to the operating system are still likely to leave many Vista users unable to access SP1’s host of important fixes as Microsoft has applied a delivery block to those systems still without the correctly updated drivers.
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