Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves. They've created an opportunity for fraud and tsunami of fakes are popping up all over the internet. Sites like this simply propel the idea that the RTM version is out there. I'm sorry but nobody in their right mind puts something like this up as a direct download and expects their server or hosting provider to tolerate it.
Seems like a great way to propagate the myth that the real version is out there somewhere, and get more hits on your website. Hey, maybe I'm dead wrong and you're one of the lucky ones who has the real deal. At this point anyone who downloads any of these unofficial releases off the net is just asking to be faked.
I've got a MSDN Universal Subscription, which is supposed to give me access to everything (as a developer) so I can test my stuff against it before its released to the masses. It's basically a giant download site of everything Microsoft has released. It hasn't shown up on MSDN yet, but I'm hoping it'll be there soon. Windows 2008 Server showed up on there yesterday, so that was interesting.
Anyway, thats about the only source I would trust. Microsoft's phone lines are probably ablaze with people screaming for access to this Service Pack. Once again Microsoft makes a really stupid decision, but gets away with it because they can waste tons of money supporting their stupid decision.
Good luck, there may never be any way to truly verify the validity of any of these leaked-and-possibly-fake SP1 updates until the real deal shows up on an official Microsoft download site. THANKS MICROSOFT!
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Originally Posted by Mike  We still believe that 1840 is the RTM build for Service Pack 1. The Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) was updated recently and refers to this build number as the RTM build that was released to manufacturers on Monday.
Shortly after we put the files up for download, our server was slammed with hundreds of thousands of download requests and crashed last night, even after we made some changes. We had no choice but to pull the files temporarily, until we can get them back up on a seperate mirror, if that is even possible.
I will let you know what we can do about getting the files back online. Since SP1 is a free update that is going to be available to all licensed Windows Vista customers in March, I don't think that theres any issues with hosting these files. They are digitally signed by Microsoft. If we receive any request not to distribute the files from them we will not do so. But we are still looking in to bringing them back online. |