The technical reason why Windows 2008 reports itself as Service Pack 1

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Monday, February 18. 2008

The technical reason why Windows 2008 reports itself as Service Pack 1

Basically, Windows Vista SP1 and Server 2008 were developed from the same codebase with just different build options used.

Ian explains it better than I could, so you might as well just read the explanation here.

in Microsoft, Server, Windows OS at 21:29 | Comment (1)

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Interesting read

#1 Jason Whitaker (Homepage) on 2008-02-19 11:46 (Reply)

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