Many unsuspecting people were surprised and excited to see early downloads of the new Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The new Service Pack was not supposed to be released until the middle of March – but due to certain glitches it was released early.
“A build of SP1 was posted to Windows Update and it was inadvertently made available to a broad group,” Microsoft said in a statement. “The build was intended only for our more technically advanced testers, and was meant to only be offered to those with a specific registry key set on their PC. For general availability, we are still planning to make SP1 broadly available in the mid-March timeframe.”