【Vista之家译】Windows Vista不再出大型功能升级SP包

【Vista之家（www.vista123.com）译】Windows Vista不再出大型的功能升级包！好消息？坏消息？

　　用惯了老版的Windows系统，尤其Windows XP用户，知道微软一惯的做法是先推出一个“未完全成熟的”Windows操作系统，然后隔数月再发布1个或者多个大型的补丁包，例如SP1，SP2，SP3，甚至SP4，SP5。Vista之家备注，SP是Service Pack的缩写，服务包的概念

　　但是到了Windows Vista时代，休想了，不会再有超重量级的功能补丁包发布，当然SP1 和 SP2还是会出的，只是，不会对现有的Windows Vista系统做出重大功能性。

　　Why？ 为什么呢？

　　微软Windows 高级副总裁 Michael Sievert （负责产品和市场）如是说：我们微软的Windows Vista 在第一次发布的时候，质量就接进“完美”了，而且，必要的补丁都会在线自动升级。没必要多此一举了。

　　最重要的是，Michael Sievert 说微软在Windows Vista的开发过程中，微软采用了全新的工具和方式，例如自动回馈技术，Windows Vista系统可以实时搜集系统的bug，在线反馈到微软公司。

　　微软什么时候会发布Windows Vista Sevice Pack 1 ？Michael Sievert 没说，估计，他也没法说，微软的跳票是出了名的，还是慎言吧。

Vista之家所译英文原文如下：

Microsoft Nixes 'Big Bang' Service Pack For Windows Vista

By Paul McDougall

One reason is that new tools like Windows Update allow Microsoft to dribble out smaller fixes to its new OS whenever necessary.
A senior Microsoft official said the company doesn't plan to issue a major service pack for Windows Vista because the operating system is "high quality right out of the gate." Another reason is that new tools such as Windows Update allow Microsoft to dribble out smaller fixes to its new OS whenever necessary.
"Will we continue to have service packs? Yes we will," said Michael Sievert, corporate VP for Windows marketing at Microsoft. "But they have a different level of importance today as people get their updates in real-time using Windows Update," said Sievert, according to a transcript of a conference call he held Monday with financial analysts.

As a result, Sievert said Microsoft won't release a "big bang" service pack for Windows Vista similar in size and scope to Windows XP Service Pack 1, which was issued in 2002 with mixed results. That 30-Mbyte download was designed to patch major security holes, improve Windows XP's overall performance, and help Microsoft comply with U.S. Department of Justice mandates.

Sievert said new development tools and processes that Microsoft employed during the creation of Windows Vista also lessen the need for a major service pack. Among other things, the company used automated reporting technology that allowed it to collect bug reports from beta testers in real time, "and then code against those as we were developing the operating system," Sievert said.

Corporate IT managers and home users alike may welcome the fact that Microsoft doesn't plan to drop a major, monolithic update to Windows Vista, the consumer version of which launched in January. After the release of Windows XP SP1, thousands of Microsoft customers reported that the revisions caused their computers to run slowly or crash altogether.

Sievert didn't say when the planned service pack-lite for Windows Vista would be released. "We haven't established a time line," he said.