SP1 beta for Vista news

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Re: SP1 beta for Vista news

Hi, Carlos.

And, to head off a few of the most-obvious questions:

No, this does not say that Vista SP1 will be available to everyone any time
soon. A FEW brave souls will get the BETA in a "few weeks". IF all goes
well, we all will get SP1 "in the first quarter of 2008". And, though it
isn't mentioned in that URL, SP3 for WinXP is on a similar schedule, but I'm
not sure if this includes WinXP x64.

So, most of us can just relax for the next six months or so - and keep our
Windows Update set to Automatic to get all the fixes that will be issued
before Vista SP1 (and WinXP SP3). ;<)

RC
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"Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:674C9049-F2BF-423E-A0EC-A5DCA49B1EC2@microsoft.com...
> For those eager, anxious, starving for SP1 news, go here:
> http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/w...ng-the-windows-vista-service-pack-1-beta.aspx
> and read all about it.
> In the meantime I can live quite well with Windows Updates, provided I
> exclude those ones urging me to update the NVidia drivers for my mobo
> chipset.
> Carlos
 
Re: SP1 beta for Vista news

Unfortunately or fortunately, due to the poor performance of vista many have
used the widely know update hack to obtain the download. Where can we get
support?

"R. C. White" wrote:

> Hi, Carlos.
>
> And, to head off a few of the most-obvious questions:
>
> No, this does not say that Vista SP1 will be available to everyone any time
> soon. A FEW brave souls will get the BETA in a "few weeks". IF all goes
> well, we all will get SP1 "in the first quarter of 2008". And, though it
> isn't mentioned in that URL, SP3 for WinXP is on a similar schedule, but I'm
> not sure if this includes WinXP x64.
>
> So, most of us can just relax for the next six months or so - and keep our
> Windows Update set to Automatic to get all the fixes that will be issued
> before Vista SP1 (and WinXP SP3). ;<)
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@grandecom.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> (Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)
>
> "Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:674C9049-F2BF-423E-A0EC-A5DCA49B1EC2@microsoft.com...
> > For those eager, anxious, starving for SP1 news, go here:
> > http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/w...ng-the-windows-vista-service-pack-1-beta.aspx
> > and read all about it.
> > In the meantime I can live quite well with Windows Updates, provided I
> > exclude those ones urging me to update the NVidia drivers for my mobo
> > chipset.
> > Carlos
>
 
Re: SP1 beta for Vista news

ttremeth <ttremeth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately or fortunately, due to the poor performance of vista
> many have used the widely know update hack to obtain the download.
> Where can we get support?

You can't.

Why would anyone think a service pack will fix anything? That's NOT
what service packs are, they simple combine all previous patches,
updates, etc. with any additional drivers that manufacturers have
provided to Microsoft.

If you downloaded a beta and installed it thinking it would fix
existing problems, you're badly mistaken.


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Re: SP1 beta for Vista news

I actually just wanted to see how it went. Test it to see if it made an
improvement in some of the many documents fixes found on the MS site about it.

"XS11E" wrote:

> ttremeth <ttremeth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately or fortunately, due to the poor performance of vista
> > many have used the widely know update hack to obtain the download.
> > Where can we get support?
>
> You can't.
>
> Why would anyone think a service pack will fix anything? That's NOT
> what service packs are, they simple combine all previous patches,
> updates, etc. with any additional drivers that manufacturers have
> provided to Microsoft.
>
> If you downloaded a beta and installed it thinking it would fix
> existing problems, you're badly mistaken.
>
>
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Re: SP1 beta for Vista news

ttremeth <ttremeth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> "XS11E" wrote:
>
>> ttremeth <ttremeth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Unfortunately or fortunately, due to the poor performance of
>> > vista many have used the widely know update hack to obtain the
>> > download. Where can we get support?
>>
>> You can't.
>>
>> Why would anyone think a service pack will fix anything? That's
>> NOT what service packs are, they simple combine all previous
>> patches, updates, etc. with any additional drivers that
>> manufacturers have provided to Microsoft.
>>
>> If you downloaded a beta and installed it thinking it would fix
>> existing problems, you're badly mistaken.

> I actually just wanted to see how it went. Test it to see if it
> made an improvement in some of the many documents fixes found on
> the MS site about it.

You probably already had all the patches, updates, drivers, etc. if you
kept up through Windows update. SPs usually combine all those so it's
more convenient to do a fresh install. On very rare occasions a
service pack will actually change things such as SP2 did for Windows XP
but AFAIK there's nothing like that in Vista SP1.

Anyway, it's a very early Beta so the released SP1 will probably be
somewhat different, there's a LONG way to go before it's released.




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