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.'"

Comments

Amiable Caucasian

[Stanistani]

>Nice White, Microsoft product manager...

Could some please inform Dave Chapelle of this person's name? ...and videotape his unedited response?

Re:Amiable Caucasian

[Tablizer]

["Nice White"] The article actually says the person's name is Nick White.

Don't tell me, Microsoft OCR for Vista(TM)

They need to think about this differently

[Anonymous Coward]

If they imagine Vista to be a horrible cancer, and SP1 to be chemotheraphy, then this all seems better. Sure, it's going to make some sick and die, but for a few, it's going to be a cure for their problems. I say let it out and let people take their chances.

NOT SP1

[ilikepi314]

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.

Re:NOT SP1

[gravis777]

I totally agree. This is about an update that was released on Windows Update, and then withdrawn. SP1 has not been released yet to the end user.

This update just installs updates, and is a PREREQUESIT to SP1. Much as you have to install the Microsoft Genuine Advantage tool in XP before you can install Internet Explorer 7.
Slashdot really needs to start validating their sources

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937287

Re:NOT SP1

[Rary]

If you cannot install this update because MS has pulled it, how can you install SP1?

You can't, whether you install this update or not, because SP1 has not been released yet. It's scheduled for release next month.

SP1 is stopped for now.

SP1 has not even started yet. This is yet another /. article seemingly about SP1 which actually isn't about SP1 becuase SP1 hasn't even been released. This is about a prerequisite to SP1.

Re:The irony, it burns.

[ubannoying]

What burns even more is that the MS Product Manager's real name is Nick. It was a typo.

Others

[locokamil]

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.

Re:The irony, it burns.

[KublaiKhan]

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.

Re:Not a shock...

[Anonymous Coward]

The money goes to
  Marketing Marketing Marketing
not
  Developers Developers Developers

Re:Possible causes

[Elbart]

You mean upgrade to XP, right?

Re:Classic MarketSpeak!

[Tablizer]

causing hard disk errors and requiring re-formats ... and it only affects a minority of users in "unique circumstances" to begin with. I love these guys.

In other words, Russian Roulette is not problematic because it is only harmful under "unique circumstances".

Re:The irony, it burns.

[Mateo_LeFou]

"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.

Re:"Nice" White?

[e4g4]

C'mon guys, the e isn't anywhere near the k on the keyboard! Yes, but they both require a middle finger - I know my middle fingers get a little twitchy when I talk about Microsoft.

Re:Not a shock...

[Macthorpe]

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.

E and K

[mopslik]

C'mon guys, the e isn't anywhere near the k on the keyboard!

I use a dvorak keyboard, you insensitive clod!