Vista SP1 due for release mid 2007

Winga

With Windows Vista due to hit retail shelves next week, Microsoft has already announced it will be releasing the first Vista service pack in the second half of this year.

Codenamed Fiji, it should contain bug fixes and other enhancements that missed the RTM cut-off.
One such enhancement would be the Windows PowerShell, previously Microsoft Shell - a .NET-based command line shell with its own scripting language.
Microsoft has declared that "regressions from Windows Vista and Windows XP, security, deployment blockers and other high impact issues as are the primary focus for the Service Pack."
So it seems the still not-yet-released Vista has "high impact issues".

Some may think the release is a bit premature. Actually it's pretty normal. With businesses already running with Vista, if Microsoft releases a service pack towards mid-year it'll be nearly a year after initial availability. That's more or less the same time it took them to release SP1 for XP.

PirateNinja

Most businesses I serve plan on deploying Vista 2-3 years down the line, and are considering full switch to apple. Needless to say, I am practicing for some Apple cert tests and learning Vista. You can never be careful when it comes to your job

Powershell sounds neat.

QCH

We have approved Vista for our domain but no one is trained to support it yet. We will probably actively prohibit Vista until mid/ late 2007, then make it optional for several years. We won't totally jump to vista until XP reaches "end of life".