A few weeks ago Microsoft announced that their final service pack update for their Windows XP operating system was ready to be made available to download. Then Microsoft announced they had not only delayed the release of Windows XP service pack 3, they had also halted automatic updates for Windows Vista SP1. Now News.com reports that both XP SP 3 and Vista SP 1 are now available to download yet again.

According to the report, Microsoft cheated a bit in making the updates to their two operating systems available again to their customers. Instead of actually fixing the issue that caused them to be pulled in the first place (incompatibilities with the Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System program) they simply released the updates with a filter that prevents the updates from being installed on any PCs that have the Dynamics RMS program. This shouldn't affect most PC gamers who presumably don't have that program installed on their system. Microsoft said a true fix for both OS updates is in the works but didn't reveal a release date.