according my findings, of alllll the posts about SP1 RTM (that does not require registration to sites), this thread on this site, is the absolute hottest on the net.
While I'm all for SP1, despite my wish that MS's updates would be more like Apple's interim updates -- which include noticeable end-user features -- let's not forget that the "handful" (100 or more?) of fixes released to date through WU are the most important ones. One look through the SP1 fix list reveals how incredibly obscure and non applicable almost all of the other ones are. Which I'm going to predict is bad advice. He's either wrong or the translation software is. That update is expressly for a successful installation of SP1, not an impediment to it. I bet SP1 doesn't even install without it.
The full sp1 will install with it, cause the update's cab is inside the exe. The separate update is for when you want to install it through WU, cause then it'll only install updates that aren't installed yet. That's the purpose of the full exe: install clean rtm and then run sp1 full exe, it will install sp1 without any prerequired update.
Which really begs the question, what was he talking about? It can't be a clean install of SP1, since Windows doesn't exist yet. It can't be a WU, since KB976902 will be required for SP1 to even show up (down the road when MS finally unleashes SP1 in WU--I'm guessing Feb or March). So he must be talking about the downloadable SP1 updater somehow having a problem with KB967902, which is strange because many, many people who happen to have KB976902 will opt to upgrade via EXE, especially in corp environments.