Vista SP1 details emerge

I have a new post up at ZDNet:

What you can expect in Vista SP1.

A few months ago, my buddy Robert McLaws smacked Microsoft around for its almost paranoid veil of secrecy about Windows Vista SP1:

Hey Microsoft, we all know it exists. It’s time to quit playing dumb before you start looking stupid. You’re gonna have to let the cat out of the bag sometime. And June sounds like a good month to do it.

Apparently someone at Microsoft thought August was an even better month, which is why they just got around to providing some much-needed details. I’ve got some answers (like why the stand-alone service pack installer is a hefty 1GB) and my colleague Mary Jo Foley has some additional info.