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The slow rollout of Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1 has confused nearly everyone, with Microsoft announcing it had released SP1 to manufacturing several weeks ago but delaying its release until March 18.

Mike Nash, senior vice president of Windows product management, said at the instance that Microsoft was dealing with an issue “with the way the device drivers were re-installed during the SP1 update process.”

Microsoft next changed course slightly and announced it would release SP1 to volume customers by the end of last week. But now some 64-bit users are reporting that Windows Update is already delivering SP1.

‘Inadvertent’ Release

Writing on the Hexus.net site, Parm Mann said Windows Update informed him Thursday that “I have one crucial update to install on my 64-bit Windows Vista Home Premium-based system — Windows Vista Service Pack 1 for x64-based Systems.” Parm reported the installation took less than 30 minutes and went smoothly.

Microsoft confirmed that the

update went out, but said it was a mistake. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, an internationally published technology author, blogged Thursday that he received that statement from Microsoft:

“Since releasing SP1 to manufacturing on February 4th, we have made Windows Vista SP1 available to beta testers, MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers, as well as Volume Licensing customers. Today, a build of SP1 was posted to Windows Update and it was inadvertently made available to a broad group. The build was intended only for our more technically advanced testers, and was meant to only be offered to those with a specific registry key set on their PC. For general availability, we are still planning to manufacture SP1 broadly available in the mid-March moment frame.”

Antivirus Compatibility Issues

Microsoft plus warned Friday that updating to SP1 may break a number of third-party antivirus applications. Some programs are blocked or do not run, while others…

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