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Why SP1 was offered to some via Windows Update yesterday

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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 make SP1 broadly available in the mid-March timeframe.

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Man, the Vista SP1 release has turned into one giant Charlie Foxtrot.

Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 – Benchmarked

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ZDnet takes a crack at XP v. Vista. Part 1 & Part 2

So, onto conclusions. Looking at the data there’s only one conclusion that can be drawn – Windows XP SP2 is faster than Windows Vista SP1. End of story. Out of the fifteen tests carried out, XP SP2 beat Vista SP1 in eleven, Vista SP1 beat XP SP2 in two of the tests, and two of the tests resulted in a draw.

But, you didn’t really need yet more proof that XP is faster than Vista, did you???
Also there are alleged performance gains for XP SP3 coming.

Time To Run Windows Update

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Lots of updates available for XP, 2K3, Vista, Office, IE6, IE7, etc…
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2008

***For those who have installed SP1:
As far as I can tell the 9 updates that actually apply to Vista itself are already included in SP1 (by comparing the dates on the files, and 1 update is actually listed inside SP1).
(No, I am not 100% positive and the SP1 release notes haven’t been updated)
These are:
Windows6.0-KB937287-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB938371-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB942831-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB943055-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB943899-v2-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB946026-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB946041-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB946456-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB947172-x86.msu