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http://ms-os.com/ Gizmodo Australia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Officially Official: Windows Vista SP1 Is Available... NOW Gizmodo Australia, Australia - 14 minutes ago Windows' much demanded Vista Service Pack 1 is finally free for you to download from Windows Update or Microsoft Download Centre. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Amazon's right on Vista SP1 CNET News.com, CA - 11 minutes ago "Initially, we targeted April as a conservative estimate for Windows Vista SP1 retail availability for full packaged product ," Microsoft said in a new ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 officially available ITworld.com, MA - 19 minutes ago There could be several reasons for that, according to the Windows Vista blog. For example, users of an earlier version of SP1 must first uninstall the older ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Some of the finer points on Windows Vista SP1 availability ZDNet - 32 minutes ago The answer to that thorny question and a few more (though not all) of the latest specifics regarding Vista availability are on the Vista Team blog in a new ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Weird, wild, wonderful Windows "Workstation" 2008 InfoWorld, CA - 42 minutes ago ... Desktop blog, I made the switch myself about two weeks ago. What I found was an OS that boots quicker and feels more responsive than Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ eFluxMedia <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP 1 Is Available For Download eFluxMedia - 15 minutes ago Windows Vista product manager Nick White made the official announcement on the Windows Vista's blog. Earlier today Amazon.com has announced that is ready to ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I just went through Windows Update to get SP1. The Windows portion ran fine, I clicked "Restart Now", it went through two more shutdown parts, then rebooted. So far so good. Next it goes to the black screen with white text where I assume it is verifying files or something. I get to: !! 0xc0190002 !! 2340/123123 (cabview.dll) and it hangs. According to the NTSTATUS page on MSDN, that error code is "STATUS_INVALID_TRANSACTION" which means "The transaction handle associated with this operation is invalid." Google yields three results, two of which are in German.* I figured after XP SP2 deployments went relatively well and since the SP1 RC had been out so long there was nothing to worry about. I guess I learned my lesson. For what it's worth, this is with Vista Ultimate x64. Maybe Google will pick this up and someone will have an answer. The icing on the cake is that I don't have my Vista disc with me and won't be able to get it until this weekend. Does anyone know if you can do a system restore after booting off the disc? It created a restore point before installing and I figure that's my best chance of getting back to normal without having to reinstall Vista. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Upgrades Available for Download Rapid City Journal, SD - 1 minute ago On Tuesday, a Windows team blog said PC users with some drivers installed will "temporarily" not be able to get SP1 at all. Microsoft said SP1 will block ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Releases Vista SP1 On Windows Update CRN, NY - 21 minutes ago ... option in Windows Update, SP1 will start downloading to PCs automatically beginning in mid-April, according to a Tuesday blog post by Windows Vista ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I take a look behind the general availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) in my latest showcase! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Upgrades Available for Download The Associated Press - 17 minutes ago On Tuesday, a Windows team blog said PC users with some drivers installed will "temporarily" not be able to get SP1 at all. Microsoft said SP1 will block ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Update: Vista SP1 hits Windows Update Computerworld, MA - 19 minutes ago "Today, you can now download Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update," said Nick White, a Vista program manager, in a post to a company blog that the team uses ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista SP1 Now Available Via Windows Update RealTechNews, CA - 12 minutes ago By Michael Santo I wrote earlier that Windows Vista SP1 would ship this week, and it’s here, at least via Windows Update. We still need to wait and see if ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Lawyers: Microsoft may launch Windows 7 'junk PC' scheme Computerworld, MA - 53 minutes ago They say that Microsoft admitted that: ...the entire Windows Vista Capable ("WVC") marketing program was designed by Microsoft to maintain demand for ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Meghan Perez, the Technical Advisor for Senior Vice President and Channel 9 veteran*S. Somasegar (Soma), talks about her role overseeing all of the products and technologies in the developer division and synthesizing that information for her boss (one of the nicest guys she’s met and one our favorite Channel 9 celebrities!). Fresh with a computer engineering degree from the University of Notre Dame, Meghan started at Microsoft in 1999 as a developer on the VS platform after completing a couple of internships at the company. She’s been Soma’s TA for a little over a year, and she’s having a blast. Watch Charles and Jennifer interview her on a silly day (how many times can Jennifer say “cool” in one interview??) in another fresh episode of WM_IN. Low res file here. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I've been wondering if anyone has ever seen software that works kind of like Adobe Acrobat but instead of creating a .PDF it just sends the print job to whatever is the default printer is on that machine? I know it sounds weird but here's why I want to do this. I recently came across an older Toshiba laser printer/ photocopier that doesn't have Vista PCL6 drivers and I was thinking there must be a way around it. The*printer is*connected to an XP machine that's on the network and everyone in the building*uses it except for the one Vista machine because of the lack of drivers. If I could install something like I described on the top of this post on the XP machine and share it on the network then the Vista machine could send the print job to*this "fake printer"*and then it would be sent the the default printer by the XP machine. That would be extremely useful but I haven't found anything simple like that yet. Maybe it can be done with GhostScript but it seems like a mess. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> PC World Honored With Two Neal Awards for Best Subject-Related ... Business Wire (press release), CA - 1 hour ago PC World’s up to the minute coverage of Windows Vista began as soon as the operating system launched in November 2006 and included several in-depth reviews, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Lawyers: Microsoft may launch Windows 7 'junk PC' scheme Computerworld, MA - 15 minutes ago They say that Microsoft admitted that: ...the entire Windows Vista Capable ("WVC") marketing program was designed by Microsoft to maintain demand for ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1 PC Advisor, UK - 30 minutes ago The Windows Vista blog warns that: “Windows Update will detect drivers that we know may be problematic when updating to SP1 and will not offer the service ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Here. I can't find any word on release dates for other localised versions, though. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft: Vista SP1 ready for download Daily Download, CA - 2 minutes ago Meanwhile, in a posting on the Windows Vista blog, Microsoft also went into a little more detail on a previously disclosed driver problem that may prevent ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/charlierose1.jpg And on tonights show, I decided to use my face as cushion from bashing my Macbook Air off the ground. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I recognize the mapping software used here. That must say something about the quality of the software. Congrats virtual earth guys. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> PC World Honored With Two Neal Awards for Best Subject-Related ... Business Wire (press release), CA - 2 minutes ago PC World’s up to the minute coverage of Windows Vista began as soon as the operating system launched in November 2006 and included several in-depth reviews, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds