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Microsoft Pulls Vista SP1 Update
1shooter writes "news.com reports that Microsoft is withdrawing SP1 for Vista. Nick White, Microsoft product manager blogged 'We've heard a few reports about problems customers may be experiencing as a result of KB937287,' wrote White. 'Immediately after receiving reports of this error, we made the decision to temporarily suspend automatic distribution of the update to avoid further customer impact while we investigate possible causes.'"
I saw this on the firehose last night and it confused me then, it should have been edited.
The problem is not SP1, but rather an update for Windows Update/installation that is being installed in anticipation of SP1 next month. It's a required upgrade to run SP1, but it is not SP1 itself.
What burns even more is that the MS Product Manager's real name is Nick. It was a typo.
KB943899 plays havoc with laptops with misconfigured AHCI devices as well. This isn't reduced performance or anything trival like that; we're talking about full blown "cannot find boot device" BSODs on reboot.
I had to turn off automatic updates to stop the update from installing.
Looks like a case of autocorrection by the MS Word spellcheck to me. ;-p
As regards the last Vista-SP1-related-problem article, I found this that mentions said problem and how to solve it, if anyone needs that.
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They're pulling the service pack because one of the pre-requisite patches you need to install before the service pack can even be applied is causing hard disk errors and requiring re-formats, although you can use the Vista CD to repair those errors, unless you paid for the downloadable version which doesn't come on a CD, and it only affects a minority of users in "unique circumstances" to begin with.
I love these guys.
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Note the last paragraph of the article: `According to Microsoft's White: "This problem only affects a small number of customers in unique circumstances."'
I find this a rather incredulous claim considering that in my part-time job providing support to laptop users at my university I had two users with the problem on the same day within an hour of each other. Entirely different laptops, but both fixed with a system restore to before the updates.
of course, the quick fix will be SP1a temporary.
The article actually says the person's name is Nick White.
It's NICK White, not NICE white. Typo in the /. write-up.
Recent OS fix creates problems.
Recent OS fix creates problems.
Recent OS fix creates problems.
Hell, just read Mac Fix it and weep (a lot of us Mac users do). Quit yer bitching.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Well, at least you guys are consistant when it comes to reporting MS stuff. Terrible as always.
MS is not pulling SP1. In fact as of this morning it is available to many through windows update.
KB937287 is not SP1, but a prerequisite patch that a handful of users have had issues with installing. This is the patch that the actual article is refering to.
Let's entertain your ridiculous position for a moment.
Novatech currently sell the following parts:-
28 different AM2 motherboards.
21 different AM2 processors.
111 different PCI-E graphics cards.
17 sound cards.
So far, we have 1,109,556 different combinations of hardware you can build. That already exceeds my "10,000 combinations is less than 1% of the possible hardware and software configurations" comment.
Bear in mind that we haven't covered:
SATA/IDE hard drives
DVD writers
PCI cards of all types
USB devices
Anything from Intel whatsoever.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
How many different CPU manufacturers do you have?
Three common ones - Intel, AMD and VIa. How many different GPU manufacturers?
Hmm, off the top of my head? Nvidia, ATI, SiS, Intel, Matrox...
Now, how many different chips from each? Several dozen at least.
How many mainboard chipsets?
Again, off the top of my head - Intel, Via, AMD, Nvidia, SiS, plus loads of no name Tiawanese ones I have seen in the past 2 years.
And how many different chipsets? Intel alone has several dozen that they have released over the past 5 years....
If you manage to extrapolate a thousand combinations out of those, without going back more than, say, 5 years (because who the heck has enough time on his hands to install Vista on a machine this old?), you have been very, very creative.
Sorry, thats easy to do.
Wow, not only is KB937287 not SP1 and SP1 is not being pulled KB937287 hasn't been pulled either, or is at least currently on windows update. I just ran Windows update on my Dad's PC and KB937287 just installed. So to recap.
SP1 isn't being pulled.
KB937287 isn't SP1 and is a prereq for installing SP1 via Windows Update.
As of Feb 21 1PM EST KB937287 is still available through Windows Update.
As of Feb 21 11AM EST SP1, at least for 64bit versions of Vista, is available through Windows Update.
So, this Article and Slashdot summary is wrong in every meaningful way.
KB = Knowledge Base http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=kb&Find=Find
WTF? This morning my Windows update pushed KB936330, "Windows Vista Service Pack 1 for x64-based systems". Was this a mistake, or has SP1 for Vista-64 been released to the public?