Microsoft Speeds Up Vista SP1 Release for Tec Users

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Microsoft moved up the availability of Windows Vista SP1 for TechNet and Microsoft Developer Network subscribers to tomorrow at the latest.

Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:00 PM PST

With little fanfare, Microsoft Corp. has moved up the availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) for TechNet and Microsoft Developer

Network subscribers, saying they will be able to download the update by Friday at the latest.

It was the second time in three days that Microsoft changed the release of the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version of Vista SP1 for the IT professionals

and developers who pay hundreds of dollars annually for the right to download and test software before it's offered to the general public.

Saying "We heard you," an unidentified Microsoft employee posting to the MSDN Subscriptions blog spelled out the new timetable:

"Windows Vista SP1 anticipated to be available to MSDN Subscribers by end of week," the blogger wrote.

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