As you may know by now, Microsoft has released Vista SP1 to Manufacturing and is scheduled to download via Windows Update later this month or the first half of next month.

Already, the stand-alone setup file is ready to download in many torrent sites.

For those of you that are not fully aware of this service pack, here is a small post that answers some basic questions about it. And this post answers a few more.

Today, i read in the Microsoft Technet Plus site that new refreshed images are being prepared and expected to be available to subscribers this weekend. This is great news because one big issue with the stand-alone installer is that it can’t be slipstreamed or integrated in already available media just like in XP and its Service Packs (at least not in an official or straightforward way).

Read the full article at TechNet Plus Blog.

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