Earlier I had written that Vista SP1 was available on MSDN and Technet – I was wrong. I assumed this because Microsoft had released it to manufacturing. In the past this always meant that it was on MSDN right away.
I didn’t notice this because the MSDN site was getting slammed by people downloading Windows Server 2008. Once the dust settled I started looking for the RTM Vista SP1 download. I couldn’t find it.
After searching around the internet I discovered that for various reasons MS was not releasing it to subscribers until the rest of the public was getting it. As you can imagine this caused a huge blow up among the paying subscribers to MSDN and Technet.
Finally, Microsoft has caved and they are now allowing Technet subscribers to download it:
I will be testing it as soon as my download completes. Still the question remains – why not on MSDN? Don’t developers need to see this release early too?