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[Nvyseal]

images/news/windows.jpgMicrosoft is done with Windows Server 2008 and released it to manufacturing, as of February 4. Ditto with Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the RTM (release to manufacturing) milestones for both Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 during his annual Strategic Update for Wall Street on February 4 shortly thereafter.

Today at 5 a.m. PST on the company’s Redmond campus, Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 held its sign-off party.

Zdnet

[VROSA]

Nice !

[m.oreilly]

i'll probably do a new install to try it out. heck, i might even go legit...

[Christopholofigus]

m.oreilly, on Feb 4 2008, 08:53 PM, said:

i'll probably do a new install to try it out. heck, i might even go legit...

That makes two of us M.o.

I'm gonna install Vista Business x64 sometime this week.

[VoodooGuru]

go legit? Why take the fun out of it?

NEVER

[TheBearLT]

VoodooGuru, on Feb 5 2008, 09:46 AM, said:

go legit? Why take the fun out of it?

NEVER

He he.. +1

[highlander]

where can we get it... its not available on technet yet.

[Linoman]

Anyone know if its true that Windows Vista SP1 Refresh 2 is the same as the RTM build?

[TheBearLT]

Linoman, on Feb 5 2008, 02:45 PM, said:

Anyone know if its true that Windows Vista SP1 Refresh 2 is the same as the RTM build?

No it's not...

But basically R2 is practically bug free already.. RTM has only few improvements (relatively) over it

Edited by TheBearLT, 05 February 2008 - 03:34 PM.

[BlueScreenOfDeath]

R2 is the rtm build they arent telling anymore because the want to test the deployment through Windows Update.

[Nvyseal]

highlander, on Feb 5 2008, 03:49 AM, said:

where can we get it... its not available on technet yet.

Linoman, on Feb 5 2008, 04:45 AM, said:

Anyone know if its true that Windows Vista SP1 Refresh 2 is the same as the RTM build?

For those hunting for the Windows Vista SP1 rtm, if you got your hands on Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate Refresh 2, you have the RTM bits!!!

Microsoft released this refresh build end of January though Windows Update only to selected testers, but clever people can get the downloaded SP package from the Windows Update download cache and they have the stand alone package of SP1 RTM

@echo off

reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSp1 /f > NUL 2>&1
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSP1 /f > NUL 2>&1

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSp1 /v Beta1 /t REG_SZ /d dcf99ef8-d784-414e-b411-81a910d2761d /f
IF NOT %errorlevel% == 0 ( goto ERROR)

:SUCCESS
@echo.
echo ===========================================================
echo  Windows Vista SP1 registry key has been set successfully.
echo  Please check for updates in Windows Update.
echo ===========================================================
@echo.
goto END

:ERROR
@echo.
echo ===========================================================
echo  FAILED to set Windows Vista SP1 registry keys.
echo  Please run this script by right clicking and selecting
echo  "Run as Administrator".
echo ===========================================================
@echo.
goto END

:END
pause

Bink

[m.oreilly]

ah heck, i haven't tried this release yet (thought i had...). i'm going in...

[m.oreilly]

m.oreilly, on Feb 7 2008, 05:56 PM, said:

ah heck, i haven't tried this release yet (thought i had...). i'm going in...

it's stating that this is rc1, but the numbers reflect rc2...