Vista Service Pack Available Wednesday, so says Amazon

The much anticipated Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1 ships Wednesday, according to information posted to Amazon's Web site. Amazon is telling its customers it will begin shipping orders for boxed copy versions of the Vista operating system with Vista SP1 starting tomorrow.

So far Microsoft has been mum on the exact release date of SP1 to the public. However Microsoft did released the Vista SP1 code to manufacturing last month. As for new Vista customers who buy a boxed version of the OS and preexisting Vista customers, Microsoft has only stated SP1 will be available in the first quarter of 2008. It has made no announcement of the exact date at the Microsoft TechNet Web site - where one would expect to first hear of the public release. In January there were reports Microsoft would release Vista SP1 in "weeks" that never came to fruition.

Vista SP1 is expected to deliver a host of security and software updates. PC World has taken an extensive look at early test versions of the software. In our review and benchmark testing of SP1 we were not blown away by the results.

According a report by the Associated Press Amazon stated the boxed version of SP1 will be quickly followed by a free download version for Vista customers.

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