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The Vista SP1 is almost ready for download as the Microsoft team has given ideas that the packs would be available soon.The Microsoft office 2007 SP1 was to be released in the first quarter of 2008 but they released it already ahead of their own schedule in december 2007, now planning to release Vista SP1 soon.

The new vista SP1 would come out in 32-bit and 64-bit versions and in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese languages. You can directly upgrade your vista using the Windows Update option in your windows operating system or else use the download option and install it.

Here are some of the features the Windows Vista SP1 would add to your PC :

• Improves the performance of browsing network file shares, by consuming less bandwidth.
• Improves the speed of adding and extracting files to and from a compressed (zipped) folder.
• Significantly improves the speed of moving a directory with many files underneath.
• Improves performance while copying files using BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service).
• Improves performance over Windows Vista’s current performance across the following scenarios:
- 25% faster when copying files locally on the same disk on the same machine;
- 45% faster when copying files from a remote non-Windows Vista system to a SP1 system;
- 50% faster when copying files from a remote SP1 system to a local SP1 system;
- Improves responsiveness when doing many kinds of file or media manipulations. For example, with Windows Vista today, copying files after deleting a different set of files can make the copy operation take longer than needed. In SP1, the file copy time is the same as if no files were initially deleted.
• Improves the copy progress estimation when copying files within Windows Explorer to about two seconds.
• Improves the time to read large images by approximately 50%.
• Improves overall media performance, by reducing many glitches.
• The Windows Vista SP1 install process clears the user-specific data that is used by Windows to optimize performance, which may make the system feel less responsive immediately after install. As the customer uses the SP1 PC, the system will be retrained over the course of a few hours or days, and will return to the previous level of responsiveness.
• SP1 addresses a number of customer performance concerns with new print driver technologies, including XPS-based printing.

With a guarantee that the new service pack you will for sure get a better performance on your PC though it comes with a warning added by Microsoft saying ‘Performance improvements vary from PC to PC based on hardware, environment, scenarios, and usage, so different customers will experience varying levels of benefits. About 20-25% of these improvements will be released separately via Windows update, prior to Windows Vista SP1′