Read more.Microsoft has announced that its Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista has today been released to manufacturing. Don't start checking Windows Update just yet though, it won't be served out via Microsoft's auto update tools until mid-March.
Read more.Microsoft has announced that its Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista has today been released to manufacturing. Don't start checking Windows Update just yet though, it won't be served out via Microsoft's auto update tools until mid-March.
could this be the gift from heaven for those PC manufacturers?
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
Anyone know if Vista certified hardware drivers are guaranteed to work on Windows Server 2008?
(ducks and hides)
PC Pro is saying it's delayed til March due to 'driver bugs.'
PC Pro: News: Driver bugs delay launch of Vista Service Pack 1
Allegedly not available on automatic Windows Update until mid-April but general Windows Update from middle of next month (according to the article.)
My understanding is, that they will hold off the automatic roll out, until they've got some better code for detecting the effected 'off specification' drivers.
Preventing people from automatically having their system messed up... in thoery.
Worth delaying automatic deployment for imo.
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Absolutely - I'll be taking a full system image before it gets installed, and there will be LOTS of testing going on before Vista SP1 goes on any of the machines at work. That said I think the decision to hold off auto install on machines with known problematic drivers is a good one, given the number of Vista installs that are no doubt set to "automatically install all updates" (ie the recommended setting). Auto-fudging of machines the kind of publicity that Microsoft will be happy to avoid, I suspect.
If it's anything like the RCs, then SP1 can't be integrated manually. You'll need new media.
There's little to SP1 anyway - it's just a series of patches rolled up with the odd optimisation here and there. Everything in it is just a file replacement, unlike XPs SP2, which in essence rebuilt core parts of the OS.
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