Is KB971033 ( WAT ) included in SP1 ?

Bill2 said:

Ya, you'll need to click on that Validate button.

What he said

You're kidding BILL, surely.

Windows is the dominant desktop o/s because of piracy.

MS don't want those tens ( or hundreds ) of millions switching to another o/s.

Difficult for us to grasp, perhaps - because we feel it is right to pay for our licenses - but that is the reality.

Bill2 said:

For reasons best known to MS, WAT is still optional. If you hide it, MS goodies that require validation will not install, other than that windows will run fine. But only pirates need to hide it...

Of course I'm kidding, the reality is too pathetic to describe and too dangerous to discuss.

Bill Gates said so, if you recall.

Correct. FYI, i already got one member banned (unbanned later) for discussing the relevance (or lack of it) of WAT, so I'll take your leave.

I have a friend who works for M$ on the Office Development Team. They really do not care about piracy in the private sectors. They do enough to stop "casual piracy" to save face for their investors and to make it look like they care in general, but that's about it.

There bread and butter (the real money) comes from there corporate customers, government, schools (public/collages) etc who will not risk pirating because the BSA and organizations who do software audits etc on the behalf of companies like Micro$oft.

This forum does not condone it either of course - the OP was already questioned about why he wants to avoid the update

sygnus21 said:

Babis49 said:

I have set the KB971033 as hidden in windows updates . If the SP1 includes the KB971033 ( WAT ) what might happen installing the SP1 ? Will the KB971033 remain as hidden or won't ? Did someone face the same issue ? Thanks in advance .

KB971033 is not included in SP1 according the list of Hotfixes and Security Updates which can be found here - Download details: Documentation for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (KB976932)

Under File Name click the download link next to Updates in Win7 and WS08R2 SP1.xls. Its an Excel spreadsheet so....

Anyways KB971033 is not included so it won't be installed with SP1.

Later.

Finally , I installed Win 7 SP1 and no problem at all . Thanks anyway .

After installing SP1 seems clearly that KB971033 is not included in the list since it is not installed with SP1.