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 Posted: Tue, 5th Feb 2008 00:33 Post subject: Vista SP1 released to manufacturing, will arrive in March |
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| Quote: | Vista SP1 released to manufacturing, will arrive in March
By Paul Mah | Published: February 04, 2008 - 02:11PM CT
Microsoft today announced that Service Pack 1 (SP1) of Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing. Eagerly anticipated by Vista aficionados around the world, SP1 will be initially available in five languages—English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese. Users will be able to download SP1 beginning in mid-March, as Microsoft is timing its release to coincide with the retail availability of new systems pre-installed with SP1.
The beta testing of Vista SP1 identified device drivers which were improperly designed and likely to cause system incompatibilities with SP1. As such, Microsoft will be making SP1 available to Vista users in mid-March via Windows Update, which will look for the presence of problematic drivers and not install on the systems it finds with the drivers. No further details about who made the drivers, or the devices or specific technical problems have been given by Microsoft, but the company says it is currently working with some of their its hardware partners to make the necessary adjustments.
Here's the full schedule: Mid-March will see selected languages of SP1 made available via the Microsoft Download Center and on Windows Update. Customers who visit Windows Update can choose to install SP1. Mid-April will see SP1 pushed to systems with the automatic update option enabled. Full language support for SP1 will also come in April.
SP1 will address many of the issues bugging users since the release of Vista. Microsoft says it includes more than 300 hot fixes covering everything from data protection to video performance. In particular, copying and moving files should be up to 50 percent faster, and waking a Vista PC from sleep should be much faster. According to the Windows Vista Blog, anecdotal evidence points to systems running faster and more reliably on a SP1 system; our experience with SP1 builds leads us to agree.
Since the release of Vista last year, the conventional wisdom has been that most businesses and a fair amount of users would wait until the release of SP1 to make the transition from XP (or Win2K) to Vista. If Microsoft can deliver the goods with SP1—and it appears that the company will—Vista should get a significant boost where it needs it most.
If you've been holding out on installing Vista, are you going to jump on board once SP1 arrives next month? |
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080204-vista-sp1-released-to-manufacturing-will-arrive-in-march.html
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Epsilon
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Feb 2008 00:42 Post subject: |
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I don't think the next WiNBETA release is that far away.. 
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Feb 2008 01:05 Post subject: |
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It's not that big of a deal  I've played around with it at work (I work for a computer manufacturer) and it's not that big of an improvement... I guess we start waiting on SP2. Also, SP3 for XP is shit
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Feb 2008 01:24 Post subject: |
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hahaha WOW they made the system so complex now that those drivers that where designed for Vista doesn't work with Vista SP1 hahahaha , Windows 7 here I come in 2010
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$en$i
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Feb 2008 01:28 Post subject: |
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| BlueSkyz wrote: | | those drivers that where designed for Vista doesn't work with Vista SP1 |
| Quote: | | device drivers which were improperly designed |
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Feb 2008 02:57 Post subject: |
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If something is improperly designed, it's Vista.
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$en$i
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Feb 2008 05:58 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Feb 2008 06:00 Post subject: |
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It's looking more and more probable that Refresh 2 (6001.18000.080118-1840) is SP1 RTM. My reasoning is that Server 2008 RTM is the exact same build as Refresh 2. Bearing in mind that Microsoft want to keep the codes between the two in sync.
If that is the case, then that means Microsoft has failed to include both DirectX 10.1 and to implement anti-counterfeit measures against the OEM BIOS activation workarounds.
And it seems it's true (as mentioned above as well) that the reason for the delay till March is due to a recently discovered device driver problem.
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Feb 2008 23:56 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 6th Feb 2008 10:38 Post subject: |
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Awaiting to hear for sure whether it's got extra protection built-in before I install. If anyone has installed the RTM their feedback would be appreciated.
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| Posted: Wed, 6th Feb 2008 13:57 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 08:53 Post subject: |
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What's your crack?
This service pack works only on english Vista?
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peppy666
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 10:19 Post subject: |
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I'm using the Vista Loader 2.1.2 and I was able to upgrade to SP1 without being deactivated.
My Vista Ultimate is in Dutch and I could upgrade that with the correct update pack.
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 11:10 Post subject: |
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| peppy666 wrote: |
My Vista Ultimate is in Dutch and I could upgrade that with the correct update pack. |
What do you mean with "correct update pack"?
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$en$i
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 13:59 Post subject: |
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thanks for the feedback guys
anyone know if it works with the Dell OEM?
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 14:10 Post subject: |
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@ WalkerBoh
Just be patient until the official/public Vista SP1 release.
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 16:07 Post subject: |
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other languages wll take 2 months after release to be released
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 16:55 Post subject: |
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Gaming os my ass, I can't wait to see new comparative results with winxp as I see one of the fixes is 'improved video performance', yeah by 0.5 fps probably, if winxp is not a gaming os and vista is, and a newer os at that, games should go faster microshit. Maybe we need to wait for a pirate 'game edition' vista like the one that came out for xp.
God this os is annoying, I call it 'paranoia windows' it's got so many resource-hogging protection programs running, it's like they were making a server os that is 100% virus proof, definitely not build for gaming I hardly get a virus on my xp and I would like to shut everything off but some things you can't and some things you can, it's such bullshit, no thanks microshit, not for me. Probably the most inefficient os ever made, the hog eating fat pig.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 16:57 Post subject: |
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Think about it for a moment, when XP came out, it was also much slower (in every way) than 98, especially in games, but it caught on.
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 17:06 Post subject: |
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Always the same excuse, not optimized yet they had the specs for a while. Yeah maybe I should wait, like wait for the next os, Berlin, Vienna, Stuttgart, whatever it's name is, and I don't like being taken from 800 mg of ram just by booting, because I know that most of it goes into shit I DON'T need, I want that ram pumped with sweet textures not paranoia bullshit.
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peppy666
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 19:25 Post subject: |
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| WalkerBoh wrote: | | peppy666 wrote: |
My Vista Ultimate is in Dutch and I could upgrade that with the correct update pack. |
What do you mean with "correct update pack"? |
I used this one: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.VISTA.SERVICE.PACK.1.x86.RTM.IN.36.LANGUAGE.-WZTiSO
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 19:38 Post subject: |
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| peppy666 wrote: | | WalkerBoh wrote: | | peppy666 wrote: |
My Vista Ultimate is in Dutch and I could upgrade that with the correct update pack. |
What do you mean with "correct update pack"? |
I used this one: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.VISTA.SERVICE.PACK.1.x86.RTM.IN.36.LANGUAGE.-WZTiSO |
It's the final release right?.
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Feb 2008 20:00 Post subject: |
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Tried | Quote: | | Microsoft.Windows.Vista.SP1.Update.32Bit.RTM.Build.6001.18000.Read.NFO-nDn |
yesterday. No prob, but had the 15 days till activation crap comming up. Did not run the OEM crack "Vista Loader 2.1.2 " , just deinstalled it...was not in the mood for fiddling 
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Feb 2008 10:35 Post subject: |
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Installed sp1 on my italian copy and everything works fine. The only thing is that i had the 15days left message but after reinstalling vista loader 2.1.2 it says that is activated.
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Feb 2008 11:35 Post subject: |
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| WalkerBoh wrote: | | Installed sp1 on my italian copy and everything works fine. The only thing is that i had the 15days left message but after reinstalling vista loader 2.1.2 it says that is activated. |
Cheers! gonna give it a go later today! |
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