Vista service pack on the way

It seems there's more sighting of Vista service pack one. The latest being in Mary Jo Foley's "All About Microsoft Blog".

Many experienced users won't touch a new Microsoft release as history has shown the first version always has bugs that will be fixed in the first service pack.

Microsoft's strategy seems to be to pretend there will be no Vista service pack so you'd be silly to wait. This strikes me as a silly strategy. All it means is many users simply won't buy it.

Another problem is the situation with Windows XP service packs. SP3 is way overdue and a new computer now has over 80 critical downloads when you first run Windows Update.

It's a real shame Microsoft have let flawed marketing ideas override the more important task of giving their customers secure and reliable computers.