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Sources: Vista SP1 Due Out in Next Few Weeks

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th Jan 2008 21:41 UTC

"The wait is nearly over for the first service pack for Windows Vista, according to sources close to Microsoft. Microsoft has said the highly anticipated service pack would be out in the first quarter of this year, but some say it could be available in the next few weeks, more than a month before the quarter ends on March 31." That's what PCWorld says anyway, BetaNews thinks it will arrive in March. A new build has been released, in any case.

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RE: What's the wait for?

by Almafeta on Sat 26th Jan 2008 00:01 UTC in reply to "What's the wait for?"

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2007-02-22

SP1 installed itself on my machine 2 nights ago. If it's a beta, it didn't let me know. Actually, I resisted installing it for a week or so, but the other day I ran a few errands, and when I got back, I was looking at the log-in screen. When I checked the Windows Update history, SP1 was there, along with a few other updates.

Have you messed with the Windows Update settings in any way or previously installed it? In addition, what version are you using?

I'm using a standard off-the-shelf version of Vista Business 32, and the only update I've got in a few days is an update to the Windows Mail junk mail filters (and the only reason I got that is because I haven't bothered to uninstall Windows Mail). Unless you're using a very different version of Vista than I am (corporate, maybe?), we should have almost identical updates...

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RE[2]: What's the wait for?

by kaiwai on Sat 26th Jan 2008 01:55 in reply to "RE: What's the wait for?"

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2005-07-06

You'll probably find that he thought he was installing SP1 for Windows Vista, but it was SP1 for Office 2007 - given that updates for all Microsoft products can now be delivered through the one interface, that is what he most likely installed.

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RE[3]: What's the wait for?

by lefty78312 on Sun 27th Jan 2008 01:39 in reply to "RE[2]: What's the wait for?"

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2005-10-18

You'll probably find that he thought he was installing SP1 for Windows Vista, but it was SP1 for Office 2007

You mean it upgraded my copy of Office 2000 to 2007 and then installed SP1? In that case, the problem is twice as bad as I thought.

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