Jupiter Jones said:
Val;
Be careful of what you expect in a Service Pack.
Certainly the Updates will be incorporated.
Also possibly some drivers if the hardware manufacturers have taken the
appropriate steps for inclusion.
Not much else can be expected in any Service Pack.
For Windows Mail issues, look for fixes in the next version of the mail
program rather than the Vista Service Pack.
Poor Microsoft, having volunteers man the newsgroups to tell us that SP1
probably isn't going to do what it should do (fix things that should never
have made it to release, like marking all messages read taking inordinate
amounts of time), or the file copy/move bug that can make that function
bring things to a standstill. There seems to be a common mentality with
Microsoft today that boggles the mind; contact them? No thanks. Many
dollars for a call to "customer support" (note the quotes). Steven Botts
has posted a message that rings true to this one about the beta/next version
of OneCare - that is, don't expect the many user requests to be implemented
(heaven forbid). Rather, expect the next version to add functionality (that
I never read of anyone asking for) and the user requests in the NEXT
version, maybe.
Please do your volunteer duty (I'm tired of all this) and let Microsoft know
the public has higher expectations from a company that charges a great deal
for their software, that Vista a big downer (mostly a big waste of money)
and they might rethink their strategy of accomplishing nothing in service
packs to fix the original software that is crippled.
Next version of Windows Mail my ***. FIX IT NOW. Did people shell out
their money only to go back to XP? I'm planning to do just that; and I
wasted lots of money on a full version of Home Premium - I was one of those
that lined up in cold weather outside Egghead when they used to have brick
and mortar to buy things like DOS 6.0. I bought the release version of
Vista at CompUSA (before they closed the store, see any pattern here?) and
they had their Vista displays up - and no customers buying it. I guess MS
wants to ditch the "home" market for the more lucrative business "model."
They are doing a great job of it.
Bill Halvorsen