Windows Vista SP1 RTM, but you can't have it

Awesome Windows Vista SP1 RTM...wohoo.  So, I set off to find the download, wanting to subject myself to any pain before many of you :P.  Just kidding I have participated in the betas for a long time and this one will be pretty painless, in fact it might even help performance and battery life...has for me in beta form. There is only one small problem, you can't get it....and neither can I.

As Mike Nash posted on the Windows Vista blog today while they have "RTM'd" Windows Vista SP1 there are some issues they need to work on (external to the Service Pack) before they feel the world is ready to install.  Here are the juicy bit from his blog post.

Our beta testing identified an issue with a small set of device drivers.  These drivers do not follow our guidelines for driver installation and as a result, some beta participants who were using Windows Vista and updated to Service Pack 1 reported issues with these devices.  Because the issue was with the way the drivers were installed and not the drivers themselves, the solution was simply to reinstall the drivers.  While this worked fine for our more technical beta testers, we want to deliver a better experience for customers as we make the update broadly available.

While we know that most customers who update from Windows Vista to SP1 will NOT be affected, our approach is to improve the experience for all our customers.  To do this, we will begin making SP1 available through Windows Update in mid-March, giving us time to work with some of our hardware partners to make adjustments to the installation process for the affected drivers.  As SP1 gets delivered through Windows Update, we will only offer it to PCs that we detect don't have any of the affected device drivers installed.  We're taking the next month or so to continue our work of identifying as many of these devices as possible.

So that is why no one can get it today, total bummer, but understandable.

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