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Microsoft Pulls Vista SP1 Update

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the undo-undo-undo dept.

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.'"

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  1. Not a shock... by Kev647 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Not a shock... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The money goes to
        Marketing Marketing Marketing
      not
        Developers Developers Developers

    2. Re:Not a shock... by Macthorpe · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Because you can test on ten thousand combinations of software and hardware and still hit less than 1% of the possible system configurations that exist?*

      *Numbers from my arse - you get my point, though.

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      "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
  2. Re:Hardly limited to unique circumstances by Shados · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:The irony, it burns. by sm62704 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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    mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
  4. Re:The irony, it burns. by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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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