After getting an earful from IT professionals on the delayed release of Vista SP1, Microsoft said Monday it would make the software available this month to some customers.
Volume-licensing customers will get the English version of the software at the end of this week, Mike Nash, corporate vice president for Windows product management, announced on the Vista Team blog. Nash said other languages would follow but did not give a time frame.
Later this month, the service pack will be made available to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers, many of whom lashed out at Microsoft on its TechNet Plus blog with venomous comments. Nash did not provide an exact date. Customers who participated in the Vista SP1 beta were shipped the SP1 bits last Friday.
Volume-licensing customers will get the English version of the software at the end of this week, Mike Nash, corporate vice president for Windows product management, announced on the Vista Team blog. Nash said other languages would follow but did not give a time frame.
Later this month, the service pack will be made available to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers, many of whom lashed out at Microsoft on its TechNet Plus blog with venomous comments. Nash did not provide an exact date. Customers who participated in the Vista SP1 beta were shipped the SP1 bits last Friday.
It's funny how that I know of, in the past the term "shipping bits" hasn't been used ever in the history of alpha, beta, RTM released.
But it seems to be the "cool" thing to say with Vista SP1, I've heard it the whole time
"Oh uhh yea we are shipping the RC1 bits"
Fact of the matter also is, they aren't "shipping" anything.... putting something on the web for download is far from "shipping"
"Uh yea I have to go ship my e-mail now"
Right! And I have to go upload a washing machine to my cousin's house.
Yes but that irrevelant, because they aren't talking about "BITS"
Who would say
Nice try though....
They delayed it because there are drivers out there now that when SP1 is applied completely trash your system... they are getting the hardware vendors to update the drivers first they are going to force those out first and if you have those let you update to SP1... thats why there is a delay... would you rather be saying Vista SP1 deleted all my info?
As being an MSDN subscriber and developer I was ****ed that MS was pushing Technet and MSDN releases to be in line with general release. Being technical professionals we can deal with the "driver issue" that is the base for delaying SP1...
first people bitch that they delay it. now they push it up, and people still bitch.
people=bitch
first people bitch that they delay it. now they push it up, and people still bitch.
Yup, Microsoft can't win no matter what they do. They've obviously got reasons for the delayed release (there's one last bug in the Service pack relating to drivers) so they delay it to get a fix ready, so people bitch and moan. Then the bend over backwards to get it out to them because they want it so badly and yet it's still no good. Some people are just never satisfied.
first people bitch that they delay it. now they push it up, and people still bitch.
It's not necessarily the same people bitching though.
That's a common fallacy to think is the case. That the same crowd bitch in either case. They probably don't, but they upset different crowds. In this case, the early adopters got happier, and those wishing to ensure driver vendors etc are better ready instead start bitching.
first people bitch that they delay it. now they push it up, and people still bitch.
Yup, Microsoft can't win no matter what they do. They've obviously got reasons for the delayed release (there's one last bug in the Service pack relating to drivers) so they delay it to get a fix ready, so people bitch and moan. Then the bend over backwards to get it out to them because they want it so badly and yet it's still no good. Some people are just never satisfied.
they arent goign to make any changes to the SP before it is releases, it's RTM now so it WONT be changed, that is the whole point of RTM the driver issues were with manufacturers of the hardware not MS, it is not a bugin the SP..
first people bitch that they delay it. now they push it up, and people still bitch.
Yup, Microsoft can't win no matter what they do. They've obviously got reasons for the delayed release (there's one last bug in the Service pack relating to drivers) so they delay it to get a fix ready, so people bitch and moan. Then the bend over backwards to get it out to them because they want it so badly and yet it's still no good. Some people are just never satisfied.
they arent goign to make any changes to the SP before it is releases, it's RTM now so it WONT be changed, that is the whole point of RTM the driver issues were with manufacturers of the hardware not MS, it is not a bugin the SP..
Yeah and they've delayed it to give those manufacturers time to sort it out, so that average joe customer doesn't have to reinstall half of their drivers.
MaryJo Foley has used the term for years. She is the queen of release date speculators. Now Microsoft has started using her terminology.
Dreading reading about all the foobarred systems because they're going to rush this now!! But, it's coming!!
I run XP Home, XP Media Center (x2), Vista Prem., Vista Bus. & Vista Home and I have to say the only issues I have with Vista are the media functions. For audio editing it is extremely annoying, but other then that I've seen no major issues. Then again I don't play computer games and I know there are issues with that.
I'm looking forward to SP1 just because if some audio issues were fixed I can move fully to Vista.
I've been running all those patches as soon as they came out and got SP1 last week.
My Vista system, x64, has always been stable and fast. I haven't really noticed any difference with SP1, but then I never had any issues thanks to the patches I installed long ago.
I am using the 169.25 drivers now... seems to be stable at the moment, but I waited until after the SP install to update any of the system drivers.
Ok sounds like a plan.
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