As people who’ve already made (or attempted) the jump to Vista SP1 know, before you get to the actual service pack, you’ve gotta clear a gauntlet of pre-install updates, which started rolling out in Feb. One of the updates apparently sent some users into an endless spiral of reboots, so Microsoft hit pause on the auto-rollout. Two months later, it’s fixed! Microsoft now returns you to your regularly scheduled SP1 programming, which goes full-throttle automatic update next week. Here’s what you’re in for. [Windows Vista Blog]
Though Vista’s had its share of bugs, flaws, and faults, a patch coming soon should bring some good results. But at the end of the day, when all’s said and done, We’ll still be wiping our asses with Service Pack 1. [Impress]
Updated: it was real, but Microsoft has pulled the update. According to Hexus.net, the widely-pirated but not-officially-available-yet Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now ready for download… for some users. The site points out that the update popped today in one of their 64-bit Windows Vista Home Premium systems.
Time to fire up uTorrent, Vista pirates users, the RTM version of SP1 has been leaked to the Pirate Bay and other major torrent trackers. The torrent appears to be a complete Vista install, not just an upgrade, so be careful and back up your files before you proceed—or else, wait until mid-March when it’s a free system upgrade. Let us know how it goes. [PC World]
