Vista SP1 - You may now see it in your auto updates.
I had speculated in an earlier post that Microsoft would release SP1 to the broader public earlier than the mid-March that they had been indicating. Guess what. They have done just. Only not in the way I had anticipated. Instead they did it in a way that is not ironic but is rather amusing. Unintentionally, according to some CNET posts and others, it's showing up in windows update.
I can't confirm this because as you may know have been running the incarnations of SP1 for some time. What makes it amusing is that for a company whose every hiccup is watched and cheered by many as examples of the companies demise and with the perception of Vista being much more poor than it really deserves this is a fitting example to those of just one more thing gone wrong. I guess it's a dark humor for me, a technology professional strongly invested in the Microsoft stack, to just shake my head and say 'Oh, Microsoft'. I'd imbue that little statement with the same affection I'd have for my son Eli who in learning to put on his own jacket seems to get it upside down every single time. The law of averages says he should get it right half the time but... every attempt seems to end with an upside down jacket to which I can only just giggle and say 'Oh Eli, come here. Let daddy help you.'
The moral is--- there isn't one. I can only recommend if you are running Vista grab the SP1. It's worth the 30-50 minutes you'll spend installing it and be grateful for this little snafu. You got the goods a few weeks early.