Vista SP1 Release Candidate Available

Microsoft has made available the release candidate for Vista SP1, after a limited beta begun last September. Informationweek points out white papers telling business users that if they were waiting for SP1 to solve application compatibility issues, they needn't bother waiting: SP1 won't solve them, and in fact might cause applications to break that were running under Vista. Techworld outlines the hoops users will have to jump through to get SP1 installed.

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Jump through hoops?

[smoothdogg00]

Whoever says that you need to jump through hoops to install this is full of s@$#. It's a pretty simple process, just doing a couple updates through the automatic update system. Don't listen to these Linux/Mac fanboys.

Re:Only Apple will threaten MSFT

[pandrijeczko]

Very dangerous too for the OOS movement is also the fact that all the managers seem to think now that OOS will be the solution to their company and IT problems. Those who saw the .dot rise and fall will understand me.

For your information, it's "OSS" not "OOS". And if you knew ***ANYTHING*** about Open Source Software, you would understand that the operating system is pretty much irrelevant - OpenOffice, The GIMP, Mozilla Firefox and many other applications are OSS that can run on Windows just as they do on Linux.

To be honest, you don't sound like someone with 12 years' Linux experience - are you sure you weren't just gluing together the disk boxes at the Red Hat Linux packing factory or something?

Re:Same Old SP1

[Master of Transhuman]

What part of "biographical incident" in the definition of anecdote didn't you get?

"Anecdotal data" is a common usage. It means bullshit based on one person's experience. Which is exactly what poster was referring to in his defense of Vista.

Try again, grammar Nazi.