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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released on February 4, 2008, alongside Windows Server 2008 to OEM partners, after a five-month beta test period. The initial deployment of the service pack caused a number of machines to continually reboot, rendering the machines unusable. [108]
The NLS casing table in NTFS has been updated so that partitions formatted with Windows Vista will be able to see the proper behavior for the 100+ mappings that have been added to Unicode but were not added to Windows. [49] Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and later have built-in support for exFAT. [50]
Microsoft also made Windows Vista available for purchase and download from Windows Marketplace; it is the first version of Windows to be distributed through a digital distribution platform. [5] Editions sold at retail were available in both Full and Upgrade versions and later included Service Pack 1 (SP1). [6]
NT 6.1: 537: Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows MultiPoint Server 2011: WMS 2: May 12, 2011: July 13, 2021: 1600: Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Windows MultiPoint Server 2012: WMS 3: October 30, 2012: October 10, 2023: NT 6.2: 2506: Windows Server 2012
Windows 7 is the successor to Windows Vista, and its version name is Windows NT 6.1, compared to Vista's NT 6.0; its naming caused some confusion when it was announced in 2008. [19] Windows president Steven Sinofsky commented that Windows 95 was the fourth version of Windows, but Windows 7 counts up from Windows NT 4.0 as it is a descendant of NT.
Microsoft started work on Service Pack 2 soon after Service Pack 1 was released, as Windows Server 2008 uses the same codebase as Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Service Pack 2 is the last service pack to be released for both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista simultaneously, sharing the same binary.
There are new options to run programs in compatibility mode for either Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or Windows Server 2003 (Service Pack 1). The Navigation Pane in Windows Explorer will now automatically scroll horizontally to display the name of a folder when the user expands a node in the folder tree; users do not have to scroll. [30]
In the RTM release of Windows Vista, files encrypted using the Encrypting File System (EFS) were not archived by the operating system's backup application; [106] this feature was reinstated in Service Pack 1. [107] Windows Vista Backup does not have all the features and command line parameters supported by NTBackup. [108]