On the Microsoft Windows Team Blog, information has been posted that indicates that for some language packs, the release of SP1 could be delayed for Ultimate users. On the blog it states that users of the English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish should have no problems. But others who use a different language could get this message when installing SP1:

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 cannot be installed on your computer because the language of Windows Vista you have installed is not supported or you have installed a language pack that is not supported.

Windows Vista Service pack 1 can only be installed on computers running the English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish versions of Windows Vista or computers running only those language packs.

In looking through the comments I noticed this post from a disgruntled Ultimate user. Though it does not specifically address the language pack issues, it does hit the nail on the head for us Ultimate users:

Using Vista is a kick in the pants compared to XP.

Using Vista Ultimate just adds insult to injury.

Not only have you defrauded your users who paid more for non-existent or extremely lame “extras”, but now many users who may have installed the language packs have to wait even longer for a Service Pack that will (we hope) reduce the pain of using this problem-riddled OS.

When presented with the meager extra lists, I’m sure many users simply installed all of the available extras just so that they could feel like they got something, anything for their extra cash. Now they pay the price.

You and your team should be ashamed of yourselves.

I think the lack of extras as originally promised from Microsoft for those who purchased the Ultimate editions, may come back to bite the software giant in the butt.

Comments welcome.

Microsoft blog article is here.

Tags: microsoft, vista, ultimate, language, packs