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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. Windows Server 2008 was also released to manufacturing today and will be available for purchase to new customers on March 1. Microsoft Volume Licensing customers with active Microsoft Software Assurance coverage or an Enterprise Agreement will be able to download the server software toward the end of February as part of the joint Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 “Heroes Happen Here” launch event.
Where: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/default.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2008/feb08/02-04WS2008.mspx
How: Windows Vista SP1 includes quality improvements that help enhance reliability, security and performance. Windows Server 2008 builds on the success and strengths of past server solutions and helps give organizations a solid foundation for their information technology (IT) infrastructure. Organizations using Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 together can see a number of improvements for IT professionals, including benefits in security and manageability, overall system performance, and streamlined planning and deployment.
As Windows Server 2008 RTMs, Customers and Partners Adopting with Help of New Tools, Training
Here's the timing for SP1 availability for current Windows Vista users:
now waiting for some leaked microsoft links. :) or microsoft be a good boy release it silently ;)
Windows Server 2008 x64 is now on MSDN :-)
Date/Time Posted
2008-02-04 13:33:22 (UTC)
File
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Why once it has RTM'ed do they take so long to stick it on the download servers??
I can understand that they might want to do some testing before putting it on WU, but surely it's no different to the RC's method of distribution via WU.
Odd that the version uploaded includes Hyper-V, I'd have thought they would leave that off of the RTM media and have the beta as a download. according to the readme the version without Hyper-V will be coming soon.
Server 2008 x64 is also up on Technet as well. Pity Vista Service Pack 1 is not there as well.
Wsus 3.0 sp1 should be coming too doesn't it? :-)
Why don't they put out a manual download of Vista SP1 on Microsoft.com this week? If it's actually done, why not actually release it? Otherwise what was the point in announcing it if we can't get it for 6 weeks.
Also, someone is going to put it up on a Torrent, you just know it's going to happen. Whey doesn't Microsoft just do the right thing and make a manual download available? Also, why not put it on Windows Update straight away too?
Wahoo!!! It is great to see this release finally post.
Grimson- YES - WSUS 3.0 SP1 is also releasing.
I agree.
I too, am getting sick and tired of waiting months after the official release .. to get what I need from Microsoft.
I guess they think, "eh... if people were waiting for Vista SP1 to migrate to the new OS, they can wait another two months".
It's getting old MS.
My big surprise with the SP1 download was that it isn't slipstreamable with the original Vista RTM bits for an integrated SP1 installation. I was going to give Vista one last try to see if, by some chance, the updated Vista would be feasible for system migration rather than simply waiting for Windows Seven.
All you Vista fans probably already know this, so I guess I'm the newbie with this info, but SP1 integrated installation media will only be available from Microsoft at a later date. Sorry kids, you can't make your own slipstreams at home ;-)
So here's the official reason why Microsoft isn't delivering Vista SP1 to everyone today:
From the Windows Vista blog post ( windowsvistablog.com/.../announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx ):
"As we update our customers to SP1, we want everyone to have a great install experience. We are going to stage our rollout of SP1 for current Windows Vista users to be approximately concurrent with the availability of Windows Vista SP1 on new PCs and in stores. There are a couple of reasons for this. Our beta testing identified an issue with a small set of device drivers. These drivers do not follow our guidelines for driver installation and as a result, some beta participants who were using Windows Vista and updated to Service Pack 1 reported issues with these devices. Because the issue was with the way the drivers were installed and not the drivers themselves, the solution was simply to reinstall the drivers. While this worked fine for our more technical beta testers, we want to deliver a better experience for customers as we make the update broadly available.
While we know that most customers who update from Windows Vista to SP1 will NOT be affected, our approach is to improve the experience for all our customers. To do this, we will begin making SP1 available through Windows Update in mid-March, giving us time to work with some of our hardware partners to make adjustments to the installation process for the affected drivers. As SP1 gets delivered through Windows Update, we will only offer it to PCs that we detect don't have any of the affected device drivers installed. We're taking the next month or so to continue our work of identifying as many of these devices as possible."
So it's those specific drivers that aren't installing correctly.
Lustyd,
The Hyper-V team has been communicating for quite awhile that Hyper-V would release in its Beta form with Windows Server 2008 RTM (they actually got it out to us sooner with that post-RC1 build released awhile ago) and that Hyper-V would RTM "within 180 days" of the RTM of Windows Server 2008. So having the beta of Hyper-V on the W2K8 RTM DVD is just like they've been saying it would be. More info on Hyper-V should be on their team blog as it becomes available: blogs.technet.com/virtualization
o(∩_∩)o...I think so.