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TechNet Users Revolt Over Vista SP1 Unavailability

Posted by kdawson on from the core-available-but-not-to-you dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "There's a growing revolt among Microsoft TechNet & MSDN subscribers who are frustrated that they can't yet get Vista SP1 and test their software on it. This can't be good news for anyone hoping that SP1 will have better compatibility. While SP1 has been released to manufacturing, and pirate copies are easy to find, Microsoft is withholding it from subscribers until early March. According to the article, some frustrated users are upset enough that they plan to abandon TechNet entirely and turn to piracy." Update: 02/12 17:37 GMT by KD : Sean0michael writes, "Aaccording to the Technet blog, they have pushed up the date to before the end of February, though no exact date is mentioned."

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  1. Bow to the closed source distrobution model! by Romancer · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bow!

    Then maybe we'll give it to the people that make out product actually worth something.

    If windows didn't run all the "windows compatable" software where do you think they'd be? And here they are stiffing the very people who are trying to make the user experience better.

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  2. Where's My Crapware? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 0, Troll

    I want the alternate suckage in SP1!

    Really, kids. They haven't fixed the multimedia borkage, tcp connections still get maxed at an absurd level, and loading Outlook on a base DWM + Sidebar image is somewhere north of 400 Mb.

    If you got Vista for free, you paid too much.

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  3. Another Slashdot "Tempest in Teapot" MS-FUD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ah yes, there is another storm brewing in Slashdot's anti-MS FUD teapot. This time... the "legions" of people who use Vista (which Slashdot is quick to point out is nobody, since Vista is a huge flop which zero people use) are "desperate" for this service pack they "can't get"... despite it being on MS's download page.

    But hey, Slashdot was never one to let something as petty as fact get in the way of their zealous MS hatred.

    1. Re:Another Slashdot "Tempest in Teapot" MS-FUD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Thanks for confirming that for MS RTM (release to manufacture) is actually only a beta. That explains the (lack of) quality of their products

  4. wow by rastoboy29 · · Score: 1, Troll

    What a thrill...downloading a pirated Vista service pack...what could be more rewarding than pirating a patch for that crappy OS, wether the original is legit or not?

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    1. Re:wow by jamesh · · Score: 0, Troll

      I would imagine that pirating Vista, or even a service pack for Vista, is more fun that actually using it!

  5. Hey everybody!! by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Troll

    I found the link to the "Legitimate" upgrade.

    Go here and save it to a CD. Then load it up and patch up Vista.

    It'll run faster than you ever can believe! It's like Vista, only better!

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  6. Vista isn't done until iTunes doesn't run? by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 1, Troll

    Deja vu?
    "DOS isn't done until Lotus doesn't run."

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