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Windows Vista SP1 includes 17 security updates and 462 hotfixes. Of the hotfixes, 390 out of 462 were previously by request only.
Of the 17 security updates, eight deal with desktop technologies, one with data access components, three with Internet Explorer, and the rest with security, server technologies, Windows Media, data access components, and UNIX migration. All of these updates are already available via the Windows Download Center.
72 of the hotfixes included in Windows Vista SP1 have previously been available via the Windows Download Center. What's a lot more interesting are the 390 that were previously available only by request. These hotfixes provide updates to virtually every major Windows subsystem:
Fortunuately, one of the big improvements in Windows Vista SP1 is support for hotpatching, which enables Windows components to be updated without rebooting.
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Shalbatana
December 12, 2007 at 8:57am
...And one of the big improvements to Vista in general will be the next iteration of Windows.
"They [It] are a dying people [system], we should let them die". - Ambassador Kosh, Babylon 5
Anyone else noticing Google's very subtle 5 year plan? I would bet they're not going in the direction everyone thinks they are. Microsoft, Mac and Linux will have some new competition in a few years from an unexpected source.
===There's no time like the future.
EvilHomerGD
December 12, 2007 at 7:40am
"Fortunuately, one of the big improvements in Windows Vista SP1 is support for hotpatching, which enables Windows components to be updated without rebooting."
It's about darn time that M$ figured out how to install updates without requiring a reboot! Nothing I hate more than waiting for my PC to reboot just because I installed an update.
