Microsoft To patchup Windows Vista with SP1

Putting to rest months of rampant rumors and speculation, Microsoft on Wednesday said it plans to launch the first service pack for Windows Vista during the first quarter of 2008.

Microsoft will release the beta version of Vista service pack 1 "in a few weeks," said David Zipkin, senior product manager in the Windows Client group at Microsoft.

Many organizations have put off upgrading to Vista until Microsoft works out the kinks that have cropped up since its release in January, which include driver support, performance, and application incompatibility issues. Many VARs have been ripping and replacing Vista from desktops and laptops they sell because of the problems that come with moving their clients to the OS.

Unlike Windows XP service pack 2, Vista SP1 won't include a raft of new features, notes Zipkin. "Windows XP SP2 was a departure from what we like service packs to be. Vista SP1 is about improvements to the user experience and enhancing existing capabilities," he said.

To improve the Vista experience before the release of SP1, Microsoft has fixed earlier problems with device drivers and ironed out application compatibility issues, according to Zipkin.

"We're aware that people are having some variety in their experiences with Windows Vista," Zipkin said.

Vista SP1 also expands the coverage of Bitlocker drive encryption from just the system drive to all local drives, Zipkin said.

With Vista SP1, Microsoft has also made changes to Patchguard, the controversial security technology that's included with the 64-bit version of Vista that's designed to stop malicious code from operating at the kernel level.

Microsoft incurred the wrath of security software vendors last year when it became clear that Patchguard would also prevent third party applications from functioning correctly in Vista.

Microsoft has worked with third party vendors over the past year to develop a set of APIs that allows them to build software that accesses the Vista kernel, Zipkin said.

Microsoft plans to make updates available for Vista SP1 and beyond through Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), through a standalone, one-gigabyte software package, or through OEMs, Zipkin said.

The idea behind this is to let customers know that they don't have to wait until Vista SP1 is officially released before migrating to Vista, said Zipkin.

Last month, Microsoft released a pair of update packs for the 32-bit and and 64-bit versions of Vista to a select group of software testers in its Connect program, which subsequently found their way onto the Internet.

However, some of the fixes in those unofficial update packs that leaked have been removed from the Vista SP1 beta because they were found to have problems, Zipkin said.

Nasa's Next Telescope

The James Webb space telescope is scheduled to be deployed in 2013, giving scientists a deeper look into space than the existing Hubble Telescope.



The man whose name NASA has chosen to bestow upon the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is most commonly linked to the Apollo moon program, not to science.

Yet, many believe that James E. Webb, who ran the fledgling space agency from February 1961 to October 1968, did more for science than perhaps any other government official and that it is only fitting that the Next Generation Space Telescope would be named after him.


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Orkut can kill........

This article is in relation to recent killing of a 20 year old Indian boy Adnan Patrawala.

A girl called "Angel" probably got Adnan to add her as a friend in Orkut .The short friendship resulted in Adnan getting kidnapped and was eventually killed by his abductors.

Angel is the prime suspect. Her profile is now filled with abuses from other orkut members.


So if your using Orkut , be sure of the person,s identity to be on the safer side........


A Report from Ndtv an Indian news channel:






Tejas Mehta
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 (Mumbai)
Mumbai is in shock after the kidnapping and murder of 16 year old Adnan Patrawala allegedly by young men who befriended him through a social networking website.

Three of the alleged killers are in custody and the Mumbai police is looking for two more suspects.

Police sources had first said Adnan was kidnapped and murdered by three friends Sujit Nair, Ayush Bhat and Khimesh Ambavat, who he met on the social networking site Orkut about six months ago.

However, others investigating the case now claim there is no Orkut connection and that Adnan became friends with the three at a gaming centre in the Mumbai suburb of Malad six months ago and the Orkut exchanges came later.

Though, the Orkut angle hasn't been ruled out. The search is still on for a fourth suspect who was chatting to Adnan on Orkut under the name of Angel, most likely a fake ID.

On Saturday evening when Adnan disappeared, he had received several messages from Angel suggesting they meet up. What the police are clear about is the sequence of events.

Brainchild behind kidnapping

Police say the brainchild behind the kidnapping was the oldest of the group, 28-year old Sujit Nair, a former BPO employee who had been out of a job for nearly a year.

Nair had planned to flee to Dubai on Monday after getting the ransom. But police claim that when the boys found out the news had been flashed across the media they got scared.

Also they heard rumours that the investigations into the kidnapping may be handed over to the CBI. So on Sunday night they gave Adnan an alcoholic drink heavily laced with sleeping pills and strangled him inside his car.

But the father of one of the accused 18-year old Ayush Bhat a college student says, his son has been framed. He says Ayush was home on Saturday when Adnan disappeared.

''My son is cooperating with the police. The police had come to our residence on Sunday with two people called Adil and Aafreen and since then my son has been cooperating. I don't know why Ayush has been booked in the case,'' said Arun Bhat, father of the accused.

The incident has once again put focus on the social networking sites and whether there is a need for greater safeguards on the Internet.

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