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Thanks to nathanm for his tweet about it, but you can download Office 2007 SP2 from Microsoft.com since last Friday!

Download 2007 MS Office Suite Service Pack 2

You didn’t download Service Pack 1 for Vista already? Just stop right there! If you want to reinstall your Vista machine, just download the Windows Vista with SP1 ISO file and you don’t have to install SP1 afterwards!

Ohw…yeah…you can only do that if you have a TechNet or MSDN Subscription

Today Mika Nash announced on the Windowsvistablog that SP1 will become available to Technical People before the end of the month (february it is).

I quote from Windowsvistablog.com:

We’ve heard the feedback and I want to update you on our plans and progress for making SP1 available to our beta participants, our Volume Licensing customers, and our MSDN/TechNet Plus subscribers:

• Late Friday we made SP1 RTM available to individuals and companies who participated in the SP1 beta program
• At the end of this week we will be making the English version of Windows Vista SP1 available to Volume Licensing customers.  Other languages will follow soon after
• Later this month, SP1 will be available to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers

For broad availability, we are still planning to release in mid-March, since we want to be sure that everyone has the smoothest experience possible.

I want to be super-clear on one point:  Windows Vista SP1 is final.  It has been fully released to manufacturing and we do not plan to make any changes to the SP1 code prior to public availability.  We are confident in the quality of Windows Vista SP1 and know that it will help improve our customers’ experiences with Windows Vista.

Our goal here is to address the needs of our customers while delivering the best experience.  Please keep the comments coming.  We are listening!

- Mike

Just announced : Windows Vista SP1 goes RTM today(just the first set of languages : English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese)!

When can you download it? Just check the following timingtable :

• In mid-March, we will release Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Update (in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese) and to the download center on microsoft.com.  Customers who visit Windows Update can choose to install Service Pack 1.  If Windows Update determines that the system has one of the drivers we know to be problematic, then Windows Update will not offer SP1.  Since we know that some customers may want to update to SP1 anyhow, the download center will allow anyone who wants to install SP1 to do so.
• In mid-April, we will begin delivering Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Vista customers who have chosen to have updates downloaded automatically.  That said, any system that Windows Update determines has a driver known to not update successfully will not get SP1 automatically.  As updates for these drivers become available, they will be installed automatically by Windows Update, which will unblock these systems from getting Service Pack 1.  The result is that more and more systems will automatically get SP1, but only when we are confident they will have a good experience.
• The remaining languages will RTM in April.

Read the complete story on the Windows Vista blog.

It took me about 4 reboots before the update mentioned above showed! But finally I can install Vista SP1 RC1!

I’m curious if this RC1 release fixes some issues I still have with my Windows Vista Media Center (Live TV). Because my Live TV functionality is still not working 100%! When I’m done installing I will give you guys an update!