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Microsoft has finally come out and talked about their plans about the much awaited and anticipated release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

The company announced a release sometime in the first quarter of 2008. The company also announced that this service pack does not contain a lot of new features, though it does have a few that a lot of users have been requesting for such as the ability to encrypt hard disk partitions.

Though a lot of people have had a chance to go through the service pack already, either through the leaked copy last month; or through the beta preview that is available to some users.

Microsoft has also announced the availability of a beta later this year. It plans to release the beta to 10000 users for testing.

Interestingly enough, even after the announcement, there are no updates available on the Windows Service Pack Road Map page (at the time of writing this post, the last updated date shows March 28, 2007).

We at VistaBlogged love our Windows Vista and, if for nothing else, we are eagerly awaiting this service pack for all the performance enhancements that it promises. Of course, if problems such as those reported by Loyd are fixed, it will be bonus.