Microsoft has silently upgrade Windows Vista (more specifically Windows Vista SP1) build version number from 6001.18000.080118-1840 to 6001.18063.080425-1930. The upgrade is done by the Update for Windows Vista KB952709 which was originally released on June 10, 2008, but almost immediately within days been taken off and retracted from Microsoft site.

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Microsoft Download Center has just released the Origami Experience 2.0, a suite of software designed particularly for Ultra-Mobile PCs that operate under Windows Vista. The new Origami Experience 2.0 application package is designed to give Ultra-Mobile PC users the same feel that they have in Windows Vista. With the Origami Experience 2.0 software package, users, for instance, can access and navigate for better information such as weather, email and RSS feeds based on the touch-screen experience.

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Many Windows Vista users probably have this problem quite frequently. Sometimes if they open a folder which contains video-format files such as MPEG or AVI files, it’s annoying to encounter an error message prompted out as follows: “COM Surrogate has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.” The message won’t go away even when users have closed the program. The error message will keep prompting out unless and until users close the relevant folder.

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There is hardly any easter egg can be found in modern operating system nowadays. In Windows Vista, some of the found ‘easter eggs’ (if you claim it’s an easter egg, as it may be a function or bug anyway) are time and date function in Notepad and hidden switch for screen savers. Another easter egg (or probably is actually a bug) is to hide or make the name or title of the files and folders appear missing or disappeared when viewing listing in Windows Explorer, as shown in illustration below.

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Each editions of Windows Vista operating system is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions (x86 anx x64 are terms used by Microsoft), making 64-bit OS option now a widely available choice. And with almost all CPU processor and motherboard nowadays is x64 based which capable of running 64-bit OS, it presents hard decision to consumers to decide and pick whether 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows Vista is suitable choice.

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There is hidden special effect for most default built-in screen savers that come with Windows Vista, which many considers to be the hidden easter egg function that nowadays can hardly found on modern operating system. The hidden gems will set the beautiful Windows Aero screen savers as desktop background, sort of.

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The much anticipated Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), RTM and final 6001.18000 build, has been officially released on Microsoft Download Center for public download on March 18th 2008. This marks the end of the need for Vista users to download via torrent or from file sharing and hosting sites the ‘unauthorized’ version of SP1, which may be tampered with. The first service pack for Windows Vista has released to Microsoft OEM Partners, MSDN and Technet subscribers since month ago.

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Non Ultimate edition Windows Vista users can now use Windows Vista MUI Tool to install additional language packs or MUI packages into system so that the system can display in another locale language other than default installed language. As non-supported Vista also does not provide any user interface to change language format, Vista MUI Multi-Languages Package Installation Tools also provides a way to change the default display language.

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