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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.'"
C'mon guys, the e isn't anywhere near the k on the keyboard!
Poor Microsoft...why can't they seem to get things right from the beginning? With all that money and power, they should be able to develope higher quality software. It just doesn't make sense why they wouldn't or can't.
So there was a story about TechNet users wanting, and being denied, early access to SP1 -- apparently specifically so they could do battle testing. I don't know much about TechNet, but I'm guessing those are pretty much the most tech-savvy bundle of customers Microsoft can easily assemble. Why did Microsoft decide to skip the public beta phase with a bunch of expert customers with diverse operating environments and go straight to the world at large?
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Well, considering universities have a decent amount of people, that the update will be installed on a large number of users at exactly the same time....that you didnt get 200 people at the same time bitching about it means that its a rather uncommon issue. Not uncommon ENOUGH. But uncommon.
That's what I hate about Microsoft products. The stupid program assumes you're stupid. The stupid program forces you to do things backwards.
Microsoft seems to design for the developmentally disabled, and does a bad job of even that. And they can't seem to learn from their horrible mistakes. Did they learn from Clippy? Hell no, now they have the stupid dog on their XP search. If you tell the damned thing to gho away it comes back the next time you do a search. Yeah, I could probably google for a hack to fix it but damn it, I shouldn't have to.
Linux never does that shit to me.
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"Yeah, I could probably google for a hack to fix it but damn it, I shouldn't have to.
Linux never does that shit to me."
So true. I've been using Lx since approximately Mandrake 5.1 (ask your dad), and have never had to, um, google up a fix for anything. Nope. Not once. Except of course 3-5 times a week.
NB: it's well worth it to me.
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Fair enough. However, all they've actually stopped is the automatic update. I'm not on a Vista machine right now so I can't confirm this, but suspending the automatic update usually means it's still available as an option, as this problem only applies to a small subset of users. So, those MSDN subscribers who are desperate to install SP1 can still do so. Plus, another poster has pointed out that it actually is possible to install SP1 without first installing this update. I haven't tried it myself, so take that with a grain of salt.
Either way, this article is not actually about SP1, and SP1 is not available to the general public, but is still available to MSDN subscribers who really want to install it. It has not been "stopped".
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
I, too, have 8GB of RAM in my home desktop, but only 2GB in my home laptop. Both run Vista quite well. Why 8GB? Tons and tons of VMware virtual machines running all the time for testing. I doubt that the original poster was implying that Vista requires 8GB of RAM!
Imagine you don't die, but you just suffer endless agony as you go through some good times and lots of bad times. Perhaps it would have been better to die, then at least you could have installed XP before it was gone (or some other OS).
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It's a sad state of affairs when your service pack needs a service pack. What ever happened to quality control?!?