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Vista SP1 RTM Enterprise x86 Full DVD (Integrated) ISO Available

For download, but again, not for end users

By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor

3rd of March 2008, 18:24 GMT

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Microsoft takes yet another step toward the general availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RTM. A fresh release of the first service pack for Vista is now available for download. And of course that end users will not be able to get their hands on the bits, still. Starting with the releasing to manufacturing of Vista SP1, Microsoft has been serving bits and pieces
of the gold version of the service pack to anyone but the end users. The latest release from the Redmond company is the ISO image of Windows Vista SP1 Enterprise x86 Full DVD (integrated - slipstream).

"The Windows Vista SP1 image rollout continues and at this point TechNet Direct subscribers can download the Enterprise x86 DVD image. I'm sure the x64 image will arrive in the next day or so. Keep your downloader warmed up. For those of you with subscriptions, you know there are VL MAK keys available so you can begin some serious testing with the 32 bit platform. Enterprise has nearly all of the feature set you would ever want, but it lacks the Media Center shell and a couple of other features found in Ultimate," stated Keith Combs, Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist.

The end users are last in line to get Vista SP1 RTM without having anything to say in this regard. Microsoft has already dropped the RTM build to the beta testers, to OEMs, to Volume License customers and to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers. The rest of Vista users will have to wait until mid-March for the final bits for SP1. In a couple of weeks, Microsoft plans to release Vista SP1 via Windows Update, Microsoft Update and the Microsoft Download Center. But if you are running a localized version of Vista, you will have to wait all the way until April in order to get yours. And if you don't want to be troubled with the details of finding and installing Vista SP1 you will have to exercise your patience even further as Automatic Updates will deliver the service pack starting with mid-April.

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Comment #1 by: X3 on 12 Mar 2008, 00:07 GMT reply to this comment

It stinks as usual MS's attitude to license holders (people that pay for theire software and bring in the bucks)... I feel also that more and more not only does Microsoft not care about the end user but it has less regard for the people that help test theire products.

The fact that only people that pay for the priviledge by having Technet Plus subscriptions are the ones that have "early" access to crucial security patches and improvements to theire "crippled" Vista just proves that MS is a selfish elitist company that descriminates just because your not willing or just cant afford to pay silly subscriptons o theire so called Technet.

I say just give up the bull MS and gives us all the Vista "experience" we paid for already and get us a properly working and fine tuned Not to mentioned designed Vista and not a shamefull sorry excuse for a New OS.... (yea you know theres still old icons and lingering remnants of poor OLD quality everywhere to mention but a few)

The only experience I am able to share is that I feel cheated... And I have a feeling Im not alone...

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