Microsoft has admitted that SP1 for its Ultimate edition of Windows Vista will not be made available to everyone in mid-March as originally planned, because of a delay with 31 of its language packs. Vista product manager Nick White said in a blog post yesterday that Microsoft will now ship Vista Ultimate SP1 in two ‘waves’, with the second one coming ‘later in 2008’. Customers running the ‘premium’ version of the operating system on their computers in English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish will be able to get the service pack shortly, according to White. But the remaining Vista Ultimate computers around the world will not receive the long-awaited update until the 31 language packs, that the software giant is presumably tweaking, are supported in SP1.
It should not be released until it is 100% ready and stable.
It is maybe a last ditch attempt for Microsoft to save face over Vista, the whole world sees it as a flop, they need some good press, and releasing a buggy service pack would be the straw that breaks that camels back.
I’ve been using it for over a month now, and its pretty solid. I never had much in the way of problems in the first place, but other people I know who had nightmare experiences say its like night and day.
“because of a delay with 31 of its language packs.”
Where do you see anything indicative of stability issues?
Because it is a release of a service pack – duh !
These things are never flaw free, I take it you are new to the world of computing ?
Joking by the way
What do the missing language translations have to do with this?
Besides, hoping for 100 % readiness and stability is rather Utopian, isn’t it?
Oh, then in that case it will never be released.
They’re still copying the files onto the final build machines…
Nothing like shelling out that extra cash to have the Ultimate operating system that gets it’s major updates last!
So, Microsoft customers get a worse-than-average OS. Microsoft premium customers, though, get the same crap but they have to wait longer for it. It seems that the more invested/involved you get, the more they piss in your cornflakes.
hehehe “piss in your cornflakes”
I like that one.
hahaha Like that comment, good one. As someone who has just bought a copy of Vista Ultimate 64 I am NOT impressed. This really does not endow faith in Microsoft to be honest…thankfully, I have a legal copy of XP and Debian GNU/Linux, and a mac as well 🙂
Dave
this should be called Windows Vista SE
this news is totally WRONG! There is NOT any delay!!!
SP1 is not offered ONLY IF you installed another language using the Language Packs.
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/03/03/l…
“PCs running Windows Vista Ultimate with any of the other Language Packs installed will not be offered Windows Vista SP1 through Windows Update until they are released”
Edited 2008-03-05 10:16 UTC