OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19306/Microsoft_Acknowledges_Vista_SP1_RTM_Is_SP1_RC_Refresh_2 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:45:12 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Umm, So what !!! http://osnews.com/thread?300118 http://osnews.com/thread?300118 Is this not the point of an RC, its finally good enough to become final ? Or am i missiing something here ? Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Cass) Comments RE: Umm, So what !!! http://osnews.com/thread?300121 http://osnews.com/thread?300121
Is this not the point of an RC, its finally good enough to become final ? Or am i missiing something here ?


Yeah, it is. I'm not sure why this is news. Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tomcat) Comments Uh... no its not.. http://osnews.com/thread?300124 http://osnews.com/thread?300124 This discrepency came up.. on my vista ultimate 64bit


Refresh 2 is kernel version:
6001.17128.amd64fre.longhorn.080101-1935

and the RTM is:
6001.18000.amd64fre.longhorn

Big difference Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tyrnight) Comments RE: Uh... no its not.. http://osnews.com/thread?300125 http://osnews.com/thread?300125 Hmm, this seems not to be what the article reports ... If what you say is the case then refresh 2 is not final ... Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Cass) Comments yahoo more interest than a workable Service pack ? http://osnews.com/thread?300138 http://osnews.com/thread?300138 sounds like they lost interest with Vista SP , there interest seems to be yahoo atm Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sabz) Comments Installed it two days ago http://osnews.com/thread?300148 http://osnews.com/thread?300148 Installed the RTM, took about an hour with about 5-6 reboots. The only problem I have really noticed is that IUSR (the IIS process) lost rights to Windows/Temp. Not an issue for most users, but not only would my asp pages not compile, but it was telling me that the problem was the ASP.net temporary folder. After about half an hour of pulling out my hair, I broke out filemon and found out what the problem was in short order.

I haven't really noticed any improvements (other then some really nice stuff added to the IIS7 admin panel), although I have never really had any problems with Vista.Edited 2008-02-09 07:28 UTC Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (google_ninja) Comments Foley has a bad history http://osnews.com/thread?300150 http://osnews.com/thread?300150 Mary is not really the most accurate of journalists. And you can tell when she did her write up on the Apple WWDC conference last year, that she struggles to understand some fundamental concepts (she actually said Core animation was just a program, which had she done her research, is so off, and everything she said was wrong).

I bet her confirmation is going onto bittorrent, and seeing someone has posted a RTM build. But I've looked, and I haven't seen a RTM yet released anywhere, on any torrent. You can tell that even the file name is marked as January (but people tend to miss the obvious), and will argue for ages, and people will argue that it needs to be a certain filename, which is incorrect also.


I don't consider anything Foley says anymore as confirmation. And even after hundreds of responses against her dodgy Macworld post, she still obviously had no idea what she was talking about. She started making all those comparisons that made no sense. Despite inadequancies in her article being said in clear words to her, she corrected them with another wrong statement.


Take this with a grain of salt for now I'd say, until somebody else has confirmed this.

I'd be surprised in fact, if Foley was even part of the beta program. Either way, even if the only difference between the final beta was the version number, it doesn't matter, because I'd imagine that Windows update most likely will use the version number to identify updates later on, so (I could be wrong), but things could get a bit dodgy with updates later, or you may need to install the whole RTM anyway later on, to fix just the version.

I don't trust this lady enough to upgrade any of my computers based on her words, because she could be wrong.

And yes Mary, if you are listening, I think you lost half your crowd when you failed to correct your WWDC post, so maybe if you revised it to prove that you do know fundamental computer science concepts, you'd get a lot more readers back. Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Auzy) Comments