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Microsoft released the near final version of the first service pack for Windows Vista this week, and a new report predicts that the system's corporate heyday is just around the corner. The report by analysis firm Forrester Research predicts that while deployments of Vista in enterprises to date have been slow, that dam is about to break. "The era of Windows Vista within enterprises has officially started, with a whimper. But think of it as the snowflakes before the storm," analyst Benjamin Gray wrote in the report, which is titled "How Windows Vista Will Shake Up The State Of The Enterprise Operating System." The upshot: deployments among many enterprises will be well underway by late-2008, the firm's research predicts, and will likely snowball from there. Meanwhile, Microsoft officials confirmed that the company began sending out this week copies of the first Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Release Candidate, or "RC." This is the final step in testing before a product or a service pack is released for commercial use. "Yesterday, we released Windows Vista SP1 RC Preview to approximately 15,000 private beta testers .... [and] we will release an RC of SP1 to a broader group of testers soon," a company spokesperson said in an e-mail to InternetNews.com. That puts Vista SP1 on schedule for shipment during the first quarter of 2008, the spokesperson added. Meanwhile, Forrester's study found that, among North American and Global 2000 enterprises, so far just... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]
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