According to Ina Fried of News.com “The first Vista service pack may serve dual purposes for Microsoft: fixing the operating system’s rough edges while simultaneously indicating that it’s ready for mass adoption.”

Nonetheless, in announcing its plans to release Service Pack 1 early next year, Microsoft is noting that the milestone remains an important signal for some businesses that the operating system has reached a level of maturity. Many analysts have consistently advised companies to hold off on Vista deployments until the first service pack’s arrival.

Shanen Boettcher, a general manager in the Windows unit, says, “There’s always a portion of the market that has that M.O. I would expect that we will see a little bit of an increase.”

For those of us already using Windows Vista, it’s hard to see what the fuss is about.