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    Microsoft releases Vista SP1

Software giant officially launches the first service pack for its latest operating system.

By Stuart Turton, 18 Mar 2008 at 17:25

Microsoft's latest operating system Windows Vista has recieved its first official service pack update.

Microsoft announced in January that SP1 would be released mid-March, giving it time to address a series of driver bugs discovered in the beta testing phase. The software giant released a beta of the update in January.

Nonetheless, the release has still caught many by surprise following a recent spate of delayed products, including its virtualisation product Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008.

SP1 is available through its Windows Update site and download centre. The company plans to push it out to PCs through automatic updates sometime in mid-April.

Those expecting a raft a new features are liable to be disappointed, with Microsoft essentially bundling together a series of bug fixes and performance tweaks.

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