This simply reflects the fact that Vista and Server 2008 share the same codebase. Too many release dates for my taste.Īs mentioned before, you’re making mountains out of mole hills. And now they release Server 2008 SP1 even before anyone gets the chance to ask when the first service pack will be released. Some days later, they released it anyway for business customers because they got again a public scolding. A few driver issues with SP1 made Microsoft's decision makers quite nervous. Then suddenly they announced that it is released to manufacturing, but tell customers that it is not yet released to the public, but will be released in Mid-march. Every week a new release date was passed round. Then it turns out that Vista SP1 contains 390 hotfixes that were not published before.
First, they make this big secret out of the release date of Vista SP1, downplaying its importance by telling us that we have Windows Update anyway. But the confusion about release dates continues. If this is just one incident, it might not be worth mentioning. For me, it seems as if MS is actually pleading that Vista and Server 2008 are really really ready for prime time now. Do they want to make us believe that there is no reason to wait for the first service pack because it is already released? It is hard to believe that this could really work. In many IT departments, it is an unwritten law that one always has to wait for the first service pack before you can even start thinking of deploying a new Microsoft OS. Why don't they just call this thing Windows 6.1 Server?īut perhaps there is something different behind this. What all this shows is that speaking of service packs doesn't make sense at all anymore. While this naming might make sense from a developer's point of view, it is certainly the strangest thing Microsoft ever did regarding product names. The idea behind this seems to make clear that Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 are in some ways aligned. It is just that Windows Server 2008 RTM was renamed to Windows Server 2008 RTM SP1. Well, of course SP1 for Windows 2008 wasn't really released.
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