So Where is Microsoft Vista SP1?
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The April 25 release of a feature-complete Windows Server "Longhorn" beta is a monumental milestone for Microsoft, perhaps more important than the launch of Windows Vista. As the nucleus of Microsoft's enterprise product strategy, Longhorn will likely pull deployments of other products, including Vista. However, uncertainty about the release of the first Vista service pack looms like a dark cloud over future upgrades.
With the release of Beta 3, Microsoft, in Redmond, Wash., reaffirmed its Longhorn release-to-manufacturing commitment for the second half of 2007. However, officials refused to reaffirm commitment for the release of Vista Service Pack 1. In November, Bob Muglia, Microsoft's senior vice president for server and tools, told eWEEK that Windows Server Longhorn and Vista SP1 would ship "simultaneously."
"It is [a] one source code base," Muglia said. "So, if you follow that model, you have to ship them both at roughly the same time."
Simultaneous—or even "roughly the same time"—is no longer Microsoft's position. "It is too early to talk about SP1's delivery, including whether it will be released at the same time as Windows Server code name Longhorn," a Microsoft spokesperson told eWEEK. The statement contradicts Muglia's earlier statement. When pressed, the spokesperson would only further say that there was "no firm date range for SP1."
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