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That last bit was the most confusing: If SP1 was done, why would Microsoft need to wait at least a month and a half before broadly deploying it to customers? The company said at the time that an unspecified number of hardware drivers were "known to be problematic," which would delay the SP1 release. (Other languages would RTM in mid-April and begin appearing after that.) Broad availability of the English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese versions of SP1 would happen between mid-March and mid-April, depending on your hardware configuration.SP1 was made available to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers later in February.Volume licensing customers received the SP1 code on DVD within a week of RTM.Beta testers received the final SP1 code immediately.This schedule was updated a few days later, and looked like the following:
Instead, the company outlined a semi-vague schedule during which SP1 would be slowly rolled out. (The company also released Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing on the same date, as Vista SP1 and Windows 2008 are based on the same code base.) However, in a move that angered enthusiasts, Microsoft also announced that SP1 would not be made available immediately to the public. Microsoft announced that it had released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to manufacturing on February 4, 2008. (See my article, Windows Vista Service Pack 1: Here It Comes Ready or Not, for more information.) More important, perhaps, the company has answered a lot of questions that I and many others had raised in the wake of SP1's release to manufacturing, centered on the delay between RTM and general availability (GA). This morning, Microsoft finally made Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) available broadly to the public, fulfilling a promise it had made early last month when it announced the release to manufacturing of this major Vista update.