14 DAY TRIAL // Are you experiencing erroneous behavior from the desktop of your copy of Windows Vista? Well, this is by no means the end of the world. And the fact of the matter is that Microsoft is indeed looking after its customers. And no, you don't have to wait for the first service pack for the operating system in order to get a fix. The Redmond company is currently supplying two updates, addressing Vista desktop refreshing issues, for both the 32-bit and the 64-bit editions of the operating system.
Windows Vista has been riddled with various problems from the get go, but the issues only became more and more evident with the growing adoption of the operating system. At the end of Vista's first 100 days on the market, Microsoft applauded shipping in excess of 60 million licenses of the platform. It is important to note that not all available copies of Vista are affected by desktop updating issues. But the updates are available nonetheless.
"After a Windows Vista-based computer has been running for an extended period of time, the desktop screen may stop updating correctly. For example, you may experience any of the following symptoms: parts of the screen may go black; parts of the screen may become transparent; the toolbar may disappear and the toolbar may appear at the top of the screen instead of at the bottom of the screen," Microsoft explained in the symptom section of the Knowledge Base article set up to deliver the updates.
Microsoft is currently in full gear with the development of the first service pack for the operating system. Vista SP1 beta will become available for download to MSDN and TechNet subscribers in the following weeks. Microsoft is targeting a final release in 2008, and since the core of Windows Vista is intimately connected with the kernel version of Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, Vista SP1 will be delivered after February 2008.