Vista SP1 now available on Technet

Earlier I had written that Vista SP1 was available on MSDN and Technet - I was wrong. I assumed this because Microsoft had released it to manufacturing. In the past this always meant that it was on MSDN right away.

I didn't notice this because the MSDN site was getting slammed by people downloading Windows Server 2008. Once the dust settled I started looking for the RTM Vista SP1 download. I couldn't find it.

After searching around the internet I discovered that for various reasons MS was not releasing it to subscribers until the rest of the public was getting it. As you can imagine this caused a huge blow up among the paying subscribers to MSDN and Technet.

Finally, Microsoft has caved and they are now allowing Technet subscribers to download it:



I will be testing it as soon as my download completes. Still the question remains - why not on MSDN? Don't developers need to see this release early too?

Written by Steve Wiseman on February 14th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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