Yep. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is a big fella alright. Practically filled up my USB drive keychain and it’s 2GB in size total with both x64 & x86 versions.
- Windows6.0-KB936330-X86.exe – 556,905KB
- Windows6.0-KB936330-X64.exe – 893,539KB
And yes, that means I’ve got the release software. It’s on my keychain on a USB drive with about a 10MB/sec transfer rate. So if I leave my keys lying around accidentally while I’m on site, you’ll know what to do.
Now if you look at the size of the download and the sheer number of Windows Vista users out there… combined with the ‘uproar’ that occurred when Xbox Live’s datacenter was ‘overcapacity’ and couldn’t maintain the load of the millions of people trying to access the same servers at the same time and the constant anger we get whenever someone has to resort to SHA Hashes & community distribution methodologies like Bittorrent to get the same stuff that’s too difficult to get from our distribution servers because they might be undercapacity for the particular job in question…
… I think it should be obvious why they’ve held off on making Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available to the public. Instead it’ll be a gradual rollout after the download infrastructure has been sized for the upcoming demand.
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