I installed Vista SP1 last night and the install was unremarkable, which is a good thing.  I did not have any issues with any of my development tasks today, and the OS seemed to simply get out of my way.  That's exactly what it should do.  Now that I know SP1 is baked in without issue my next task will be to perform an annual spring cleaning and rebuild this machine.  However...

As has been discussed ad nauseam, many bits of functionality were discussed long ago when Microsoft was hatching Vista.  Some came to fruition, some were abandoned early, and some just disappeared into the ether.  One item that seemed to live into the release of Vista was the idea of "offline updating" or slipstreaming Service Packs into existing disk images (a.k.a. ISOs).  The idea is that when a service pack comes along, you simply unpack it, and copy all of the files into the UPDATE folder in the ISO.  Boom.  Done.  Err... not so fast.  Seems that Microsoft had "ran into some unexpected issues with the servicing stack" for SP1 so no soup for you, system admins; well, unless you consider getting a new ISO from Microsoft a solution.

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I'll admit that the following may not be an SP1 related note, but I only noticed it post install.

At some point along the line, Microsoft changed their warning windows to a layout that looks suspiciously like another application that strikes fear in my heart.  I can't be the only person to notice this?