Vista SP1 in March. | The Coffeehouse

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

PressPass wrote:
What: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released to manufacturing today and will start being available to customers in March, starting with Microsoft Volume Licensing customers.

What the hell guys?

Edit: Oh, remaining languages will RTM in April. I guess that makes that, what, a June release for localised SP1's?

Dan

It depends on your language as English, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese will be ready by Mid-March.

In mid-March, we will release Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Update (in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese) and to the download center on microsoft.com. Customers who visit Windows Update can choose to install Service Pack 1. If Windows Update determines that the system has one of the drivers we know to be problematic, then Windows Update will not offer SP1. Since we know that some customers may want to update to SP1 anyhow, the download center will allow anyone who wants to install SP1 to do so.

Source: Windows Vista blog

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

creditcard wrote:
So where is Windows XP SP3? Canceled already?

Wow. Well done for ticking the moron box.

Seriously, what the hell? Where on earth would you pull that assumption from?

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

blowdart wrote:

creditcard wrote: So where is Windows XP SP3? Canceled already?

Wow. Well done for ticking the moron box.

Seriously, what the hell? Where on earth would you pull that assumption from?

It's just his daily trolling run of the Coffeehouse. I guess he's out of inspiration or something.

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

creditcard wrote:

blowdart wrote:
creditcard wrote:So where is Windows XP SP3? Canceled already?

Wow. Well done for ticking the moron box.

Seriously, what the hell? Where on earth would you pull that assumption from?

I don't know, from history with Microsoft and their non-delivery of service packs for older OSes.

You mean operating systems that are out of their support period. Unlike, for example, XP is right now.

Seriously that was pathetic. You need more coffee before trolling ok?

Skriker V1.0
Need more money...

The RC and RC builds have been pulled from MSDN, can we expect to see the RTM on there soon! ???

Massif
aim stupidly high, expect to fail often.

creditcard wrote:

Windows 2000 isn't out of it's support period.

Calling someone pathetic without checking your facts is pathetic.

You fool! You fell into his trap.

Of course, Win2k is in its "extended support period", so no service packs for you, and only paid patches. (Provided you're not a consumer, or hardware manufacturer.)

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Can we ignore the troll and get back to the topic of Vista SP1?

What I'm wondering about: what if you use Ultimate and have both the English language pack and a non-English/French/Spanish/German/Japanese service pack? Will the update install if you set it to English? What happens when you switch back to the other language?

AndyC

creditcard wrote:

I really didn't. SP5 was in production while in the normal support period.

And, effectively, came out as the Security Roll-up package for Windows 2000 SP4.

Your point is?

Ray6

creditcard wrote:

AndyC wrote:
creditcard wrote:
I really didn't. SP5 was in production while in the normal support period.

And, effectively, came out as the Security Roll-up package for Windows 2000 SP4.

Your point is?

"Security Roll-up" != Service Pack 5

Er ... why not?

AndyC

creditcard wrote:

"Security Roll-up" != Service Pack 5

Correct. Because of two things:

1. You have to install SP4 first, if you've installed SP4 it saves on download time.

2. If they'd called it SP5 they'd have been obliged to terminate support for SP4 after 2 years, under the Windows product lifecycle, which many businesses did not want.

Pon

This is bullcrap. The only reason that they're not offering it right now is because of a bug where you might have to reinstall drivers. Why can't they just release it on Microsoft Download now, and then push the fixed version on Windows Update later?

Ray6

creditcard wrote:

Ray6 wrote:
creditcard wrote:
AndyC wrote:
creditcard wrote:
I really didn't. SP5 was in production while in the normal support period.

And, effectively, came out as the Security Roll-up package for Windows 2000 SP4.

Your point is?

"Security Roll-up" != Service Pack 5

Er ... why not?

A "service pack" in Microsoft is a big deal. It receives extensive testing and care. And update roll up is not a "service pack" by Microsoft's own admission, but rather a bunch of individual patches installed at the same time. If you want to argue that an "update rollup" is a service pack, go argue with Microsoft themselves, not me. Windows 2000 SP5 was canceled according to the official party line.

Actually, I was more curious as to what the difference was between a 'service pack' and a 'rollup'. I always thought that a service pack was just a collection of updates between certain dates.

Still, don't really see what the problem is here. If a company is brining out a new version of an operating system, then I don't really see why they should be still building on the old one, aside from security patches and show-stopping bug fixes.

Tell me, is the Linux community still building new functionality into Version 1.0 of the kernel?

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

why april in Italy??'

WHYYYYYYYYY??

punkouter

so, when does the slipstreamed SP1 retail version will come out? id really like to get vista, but i want it to be already slipstreamed.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Dovella wrote:
why april in Italy??'
WHYYYYYYYYY??

Always install the English version of Windows Smiley

Damn I was a few days to much on vacation... I could have downloaded it... Sad

ZippyV
Fired Up

littleguru wrote:
Damn I was a few days to much on vacation... I could have downloaded it...

It was never available.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

ZippyV wrote:

littleguru wrote: Damn I was a few days to much on vacation... I could have downloaded it...

It was never available.

Oh! I didn't know that Smiley

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

msbob wrote:
I got Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1 now!!!!

Hooray Microsoft!!

Hrm. Are you openily admitting to piracy?

Interesting...

EasyMan

Piracy or not, today I read online that already there were pirate groups circumventing the SP1 WGA.
WGA in SP1 was patched for the BIOS hack and for some registry hack to turn a Vista copy in a "genuine" one.

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PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

EasyMan wrote:
Piracy or not, today I read online that there is already pirate groups circumventing the SP1 WGA.
WGA in SP1 was patched for the BIOS hack and for some registry hack to turn a Vista copy in a "genuine" one.

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No spam, please.

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

PaoloM wrote:

EasyMan wrote: Piracy or not, today I read online that there is already pirate groups circumventing the SP1 WGA.
WGA in SP1 was patched for the BIOS hack and for some registry hack to turn a Vista copy in a "genuine" one.

____________________________________
Visit my blog in http://pathtosucceed.blogspot.com/

No spam, please.

mi chiedo?!
Se SP1 è in RTM e addirittura distibuito per Msdn Plus, per quale ragione non è dato anche a noi clienti consumer?
Qualcuno dice per problemi di Driver, ok!!
E allora l IT hanno tutti PC ad hoc per SP1?
mi viene difficile crederci.
Sarebbe molto piu onesto da parte di tutti dire la verità perchè cosi tantissimi utenti nel blog ufficiale hanno aperto delle critiche legittime e credo che questo non possa giovare a Microsoft.
Capisco gl interessi che girano intorno a questa release, ma almeno dare un pò di logica a chi segue con passione il mondo Microsoft mi sembra legittimo.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

Dovella wrote:

PaoloM wrote:

EasyMan wrote: Piracy or not, today I read online that there is already pirate groups circumventing the SP1 WGA.
WGA in SP1 was patched for the BIOS hack and for some registry hack to turn a Vista copy in a "genuine" one.

____________________________________
Visit my blog in http://pathtosucceed.blogspot.com/

No spam, please.

mi chiedo?!
Se SP1 è in RTM e addirittura distibuito per Msdn Plus, per quale ragione non è dato anche a noi clienti consumer?
Qualcuno dice per problemi di Driver, ok!!
E allora l IT hanno tutti PC ad hoc per SP1?
mi viene difficile crederci.
Sarebbe molto piu onesto da parte di tutti dire la verità perchè cosi tantissimi utenti nel blog ufficiale hanno aperto delle critiche legittime e credo che questo non possa giovare a Microsoft.
Capisco gl interessi che girano intorno a questa release, ma almeno dare un pò di logica a chi segue con passione il mondo Microsoft mi sembra legittimo.

Prima di tutto, questo e' un sito in inglese, percio' parla inglese.

evildictaitor
if( !succeed( try() ) ) { while(true) try(); }

msbob wrote:
Hell no! I am an MSDN Universal subscriber! Best $11000 I've ever spent!

Where would a kid such as yourself get $11000 without resorting to theft or drugs?

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

PaoloM wrote:

Dovella wrote:

PaoloM wrote:

EasyMan wrote: Piracy or not, today I read online that there is already pirate groups circumventing the SP1 WGA.
WGA in SP1 was patched for the BIOS hack and for some registry hack to turn a Vista copy in a "genuine" one.

____________________________________
Visit my blog in http://pathtosucceed.blogspot.com/

No spam, please.

mi chiedo?!
Se SP1 è in RTM e addirittura distibuito per Msdn Plus, per quale ragione non è dato anche a noi clienti consumer?
Qualcuno dice per problemi di Driver, ok!!
E allora l IT hanno tutti PC ad hoc per SP1?
mi viene difficile crederci.
Sarebbe molto piu onesto da parte di tutti dire la verità perchè cosi tantissimi utenti nel blog ufficiale hanno aperto delle critiche legittime e credo che questo non possa giovare a Microsoft.
Capisco gl interessi che girano intorno a questa release, ma almeno dare un pò di logica a chi segue con passione il mondo Microsoft mi sembra legittimo.

Prima di tutto, questo e' un sito in inglese, percio' parla inglese.

excuse me i See 2 Italian Flag.