Quick69togo

You state as a matter of fact "Sorry to say but the RTM release is buggy". You have 
tested this, have you, as a recipient manufacturer? If not, I fail to see how you 
have arrived at that conclusion.

An RTM copy is not a beta copy nor a release candidate. There seems to be some misunderstanding 
here. The RTM copy of Vista Sp1, is a complete copy of Vista with Sp1 integrated. 
This is installed on new PCs (hence the designation Release to Manufacturing), burnt 
to disk and issued with new PCs as OEM disks.

Always some weeks later, Microsoft burns the RTM to disk, boxes it (taking the designation 
'Gold'), and retail it as 'Vista Sp1' in shops.

Sp1 as a download upgrade is a separate matter for current Vista users. This is not 
a complete copy of the new OS, Vista Sp1, but the necessary code to upgrade existing 
Vistas to Vista Sp1 standard. That will be available mid-March, by which time new 
PCs will be available loaded with Vista Sp1 OEM.

If you read the links carefully again you will see that some driver incompatibility 
caused the delay of the RTM, which has now been sorted out. This is always a problem 
because hardware manufacturers are reluctant to re-write driver code based on Beta, 
Release Candidate 1, and subsequent release candidates. They tend to hang back to 
the last minute waiting for the final RTM copy. For that reason, RTM copies are released 
to hardware manufacturers some time before general release so that they can work 
out any incompatibility issues or bugs in the drivers.

Peter

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