Bear in mind those Windows Vista reliability and performance repair packs — beta versions of which temporarily escaped to the masses last week? On August 7, Microsoft posted the final versions of the two Vista correct packs for download.The Vista efficiency fix pack, KB 938979,
Windows 7 Home Basic, (both 32- and 64-bit versions) is downloadable here. The reliability resolve pack, KB 938194, (32- and 64-bit flavors), can be downloaded here.The two resolve packs include a number of the updates that Microsoft is expected to deliver in the first full-fledged Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 release,
Cheap Office 2010, a public beta of which is expected real soon now. SP1 is expected to include a number of security,
Microsoft Office Standard 2010, performance and reliability fixes that Microsoft has been delivering since it shipped Vista,
Windows 7 Code/, all in one single package.Microsoft is promising to make the two new Vista correct packs available via Windows Update at a “later date.” The full statement, provided by a Microsoft spokeswoman:“The two updates will be available on Microsoft;s download center today,
Office Home And Stude/nt 2010 Key, and will be available through Windows Update at a later date.”A number of Web sites and blogs have reported that Microsoft will push out these two resolve packs on August 14, Patch Tuesday. The spokeswoman would not confirm that the 14th is the date. (But I;m betting it is.)