Microsoft Backpedals, Moves Up Vista SP1 Release Dates
By fu5i0n, 12 February 2008 - 13:56 37 comments
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.
Comments (37)
Fubar - 12 February 2008 - 13:57
wow talk about a farce lol
theyarecomingforyou - 12 February 2008 - 14:22
+1
toadeater - 13 February 2008 - 01:58
The Farce starts now.
xendrome - 12 February 2008 - 14:02
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"
Well, shipping "a bit" sounds about 1/8th the size of shipping "a byte". :P
xendrome - 12 February 2008 - 15:58
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"
Octol - 12 February 2008 - 16:55
Right! And I have to go upload a washing machine to my cousin's house.
HawkMan - 12 February 2008 - 18:21
you are aware that BITS is the windows update download engine ?
xendrome - 12 February 2008 - 19:34
Yes but that irrevelant, because they aren't talking about "BITS"
Who would say
Nice try though....
digitalsoft - 12 February 2008 - 14:07
lol! Makes me laugh... why the delays in the first place if they can simply release it now??
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?
+Brandon Live - 13 February 2008 - 05:44
There were never delays other than a small delay in posting to WU due to the aforementioend driver issues, and there is no backpeddling. MS never announced any dates when SP1 would be available through any specific channels.
+Frazell Thomas - 12 February 2008 - 14:12
Good!
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...
mspeak - 12 February 2008 - 14:15
first people bitch that they delay it. now they push it up, and people still bitch.
pjak - 12 February 2008 - 14:35
yeah, in short:
people=bitch
Kushan - 12 February 2008 - 15:40
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.
+Northgrove - 12 February 2008 - 23:12
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.
whocares78 - 12 February 2008 - 23:58
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..
Kushan - 13 February 2008 - 10:00
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.
Angel Blue01 - 12 February 2008 - 14:16
There's no reason not to make the professionals download available (500 MB package).