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Wow, I thought Windows Server 2008 was postponed.

I was going to attend the launch event in LA, but I think Im gonna wait for the mini Launch in San Diego in May.

Hope its fun for all those that can attend.

My word!  You guys should know better than to post a 1.3 meg. image!  That image doesn't have to be that large.

I hope, from the bottom of my heart, that SP1 will come to solve the several Video crashes and recovery like nvlddmkm stopped responding or atikmdag stopped responding.  Those crashes are, or should be treated as, major problems with Vista because it makes the system unstable.  And if the hole idea is to make the Vista the new gaming platform, those issues are bottlenecks that compromise the idea.  Except for that Vista will sure be successful in replacing XP, that is also a great product.

Also, with the DirectX 10 only available on Vista and Vista crashing when playing, MS will probably have to reevaluate the decision of not implement a DX10 version for XP.  Gamers will be very disappointed if they buy their new graphic cards with DX 10 support but are unable to use it on Vista(DX10).

Danielcastro,

I'm not sure why you think SP1 would solve problems which are clearly related to buggy 3rd party drivers.  Perhaps it's more fashionable for you to blame the OS rather than the hundreds of other companies who are supposed to understand how to write stable, working drivers for their hardware.

While I've never a crash, lockup or blue screen, even I had problems with bad drivers.  In particular, a previous driver was sometimes giving me corrupted graphics in 3D games after the system woke from sleep.  That issue was FIXED, not by Microsoft as YOU seem to expect, but my Nvidia in a newer driver release I had to download on my own.

When will we see Vista SP1 available in other languages?

In fact the drivers could also be bad written.  

But, for the SO user it does not matter.  

What matter is the SO stable without crashes.

how Microsoft will manage to solve it, because it is strategic for MS, is their busines.  If the crash is responsability of Microsoft or ATI or NVidia, for the final user it is not important.  The important is the impact on sales of SO.  And less crashes means (for the final user) more acceptance, and for MS means more sales.

so is Vista SP1 Final release officially out?

HEROS in the Server Farm!

Today I was glad, proud, elated, inciplicated, to officially launch our Windows Server 2008 Suite of products!

At the "rally/news conference" I waxed eloquent in praising IT workers, calling them the "Heart and Soul" of our industry!

"They are HEROS! One and all! They wade through the pirana-infested waters of the internet! Battle the dragons of bad code! Fight off the anti-Microsoft trolls! Slay the demon-hackers! They fearlessly, boldly blaze the trail of technology leading the masses into the shiney, glowing city of the future! A beautiful future! A Microsoft dominated future!"

I was so excited that I didn't realise that I was flailing my arms, leaping up and down and drewling on the podium. I'm just glad that we banned video cameras or I would have another one of those Monkey-boy videos to deal with!

Folks, Windows Server 2008 is just that good! If it doesn't have you flailing, leaping and drewling after using it for a few days, you just don't really understand what you are looking at!

dang 1.3 meg image why not just post a small video clip

have you guys never heard of compression

(thank god i have broadband poor dialup users)

Since Autopatcher was told to stop distributing Microsoft's patches, Dial-up users don't update windows, they just look at the several 100 hours to update, and just cancel and turn of windows update.

Any idea when Vista SP1 was / is coming out?  I thought it was March 1st, 2008?

some already have it

but mid march is when your get it (probably patch Tuesday it will be in download center)

then April it will be pushed though windows update(patch Tuesday i believe)

Pretty sad that Autopatcher is no more, not that I ever used it.  Windows Update was fine for me but then I only ever update my machines at home once in a while and all my relatives PCs have fast internet access.

However I could see that it will make maintaining or fixing PCs if your in that line of work much harder, and as Windows Vista needs more fixing than most XP installs it may be a bad move in the long run.  However if Microsoft releases SP1 as a separate download that doesnt require an internet connection to install that may soften the blow to people who regularly fix or update PCs.

without language pack that's looks like a blue crash screen...

As a MS Partner and action pack subscriber, I cannot find where to download and test SP1. The Technet site is a different subsciption site. Any clue where I can download it and get on with business?

Moderator can email if you wish.

Thaks much in advance.

George

what are the fixes as when SP1 gets uploaded  the internet connection generally freezes so what are the fixes required please let me know

I m a compuserve member and use compuserve version 7.0 and  and  it is not compaitable/made compaitable for windows xpsp2/yet in vain /as it generally uses geko browser of its own i am unable to down load through internet/is there any possible resolution to it /and also i do not want to use cs light dialer as it has no features required .

what are the fixes as when SP1 gets uploaded  the internet connection generally freezes so what are the fixes required please let me know

kumar8abhay@yahoo.co.in

is there any resolution to my quries ? regarding sp1 compatablity with cs and other isps /