Thursday, April 17, 2008

Windows Vista SP1 Now Available in Remaining Languages

As you may (or may not!) recall, in March Windows Vista SP1 was released, but only in English (US), French, German, Japanese, or Spanish (Traditional) with the rest of the languages promised for this month. And now, the remaining 31 language packs have been released.

The 32-bit standalone installer can be downloaded here, while the 64-bit installer is here.

However, mid-April has arrived and Microsoft has still not made SP1 an automatic download via Windows Update. It's available (if you have the right drivers) via Windows Update, but as an optional download.

Still no word as to when the automatic update feature will be enabled. My guess, if I had to make one, is that first they have to get automatic updates of "fixed" drivers set up, so that people can see the blasted thing, and that they still haven't done that.

I can tell you for sure that I still can't find "fixed" drivers for my wife's HP laptop or my XPS Gen 2, and they don't show up as updated drivers on Windows Update either - which would be the ideal situation.


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