Vista SP1 has been released to manufacturing, but due to specific related driver issues, Microsoft has decided not to release it via Windows Update until mid-march. This means Vista users still have to curiously wait for weeks to lay their hands on SP1. but Pirates already have already released it on various torrent tracker sites.
Usually, it doesn’t take long for Pirates to make their unofficial release, but this time Microsoft didn’t reveal the build number of the final version of SP1. That made it hard for Pirates to determine which build of Vista SP1 was the final version. Thanks to Paul Thurrott, who somehow got his hands over SP1 RTM version and confirmed that the build version is 6001.18000!
Standalone installer of Vista SP1 is available on ThePirateBay with sufficient seeders. You can find it by searching for “Vista SP1 6001.18000“. (Hint: It’s about 434.46 MB in size)
Of course, it’s illegal to download from torrent sites, but if you already own a copy of Vista, then it’s probably not-so-illegal to download SP1 through BitTorrent.
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