According to the Windows Vista Team Blog. SP1 won't be on Windows Update and the Microsoft download site until Mid-March. Customers that select to have updates auto-installed via Windows Update won't get automatically pushed until April. I guess there's some issues with device drivers so that's why they are doing this staggered rollout.
I'd rather them wait and get whatever kinks are left sorted out than push the release now. But this is coming from someone who actually has to use the service pack, not someone who thinks they write really awesome one liners on Engadget comments. There are literally millions of possible hardware combinations that need to be tested and Vista runs on a completely different architecture than XP did.
All I'm saying is: C'mon, give M$ a break. It's a whopping 26 days. My Vista PC runs fine now so I'm not really hampered by it running fine while I wait 26 days for it to run better...
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According to the Windows Vista Team Blog. SP1 won't be on Windows Update and the Microsoft download site until Mid-March. Customers that select to have updates auto-installed via Windows Update won't get automatically pushed until April. I guess there's some issues with device drivers so that's why they are doing this staggered rollout.
More here:http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx
Hold the phone, driver issues? On Vista? Crazy talk!
Yea, you would think the manufacturer's would have learned from when Vista shipped that they should have the drivers ready, but noooooo.
I'd rather them wait and get whatever kinks are left sorted out than push the release now. But this is coming from someone who actually has to use the service pack, not someone who thinks they write really awesome one liners on Engadget comments. There are literally millions of possible hardware combinations that need to be tested and Vista runs on a completely different architecture than XP did.
All I'm saying is: C'mon, give M$ a break. It's a whopping 26 days. My Vista PC runs fine now so I'm not really hampered by it running fine while I wait 26 days for it to run better...