Microsoft is poised to release Windows Vista Services Pack (SP1) towards the retail channel this week. Along with the final release-to-manufacturing (RTM) of Windows XP SP3 isn't much behind,
Office 2010 Standard, based on testing resources.Amazon.com has printed to its web page Vista SP1 availability dates of Wednesday March 19. (Many thanks to Computerworld for spotting Amazon;s SP1 availability recognize.)Microsoft officials have already been saying for the previous few weeks to anticipate Microsoft to release Vista SP1 by means of retail channels and by way of Windows Update in mid-March and to Pc makers for preloading on new methods in April.Even though Microsoft released Vista SP1 to production in early February — and (after user protest) delivered the final SP1 bits to its TechNet and Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers a few weeks after that — company officials said they were holding back on making the company pack more broadly available due to driver-installation problems.(In late February, Microsoft inadvertently made a build of Vista SP1 available by way of Windows Update, and pulled it shortly afterward.)Meanwhile, Microsoft has removed XP SP3 from its private Connect test web-site, according to testers who requested anonymity,
Office 2007 Ultimate, in preparation for your delivery of the ultimate XP SP3 bits.Over the weekend of March 15, another new test build of XP SP3 leaked out. The latest XP SP3 build, No. 5503, was available on torrent sites over the weekend,
Office Standard 2007, testers said.Said one tester: “A new build of SP3 is floating on the net, build 5503. The last build,
Office 2007 Download, the public RC2 was Build 3311 (which Microsoft released in mid-February) so it;s quite a jump between the two.”The aforementioned tester said that the XP SP3 5503 build didn;t seem to include any noticeable new features or functionality. Other testers wondered whether the new SP3 build was real or ########.Microsoft officials have said to anticipate XP SP3 to ship by mid-2008. Internet site PCInpact earlier this year said Microsoft planned to ship the last version of XP SP3 the week of March 23,
Buy Office 2010, a date Microsoft would neither confirm nor deny when I asked.Anyone else have more to share on XP SP3 availability?