Vista SP1 Is Even Less Compatible

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Microsoft is now saying that Vista SP1 disables some 3rd party applications. The KB article on SP1 incompatibility states: 'For reliability reasons, Microsoft blocks these programs from starting after you install Windows Vista SP1.' It does link to several vendor support pages with updates or workarounds. Unfortunately, at least one of the suggestions consists of merely disabling part of the program, which could leave you with half an anti-virus solution."

Comments

Re:It's normal

[BlueParrot]

Actually there's plenty to see. If they are actively disabling 3rd party software against which they compete, then they are making themselves very guilty of anti-trust violations. My guess is the EC will not be very happy about this.

Bit of a catch-22, isn't there?

[tomhudson]

So you're supposed to go online with your antivirus, which was disabled by Vista update, so that you can download a fix for your now not working antivirus so you can be protected from viruses ...

Isn't the whole idea of having a running antivirus so that you can go safely online and download sh*t?

If the SP was going to break your antivirus, the proper behaviour would have been for it to abort itself, and tell you that you need to go to xyz.com or hatever and get an update to your antivirus first ...

They broke security in the name of security. Sounds kind of like Viet Nam - "We bombed the village to save it!" (or Iraq for that matter)

Re:Bit of a catch-22, isn't there?

[msromike]

Orders meaning two or more as in 1,000,000 times or more, or is it just a geeky way to sound smart? Wouldn't a "megashitload more" be just as accurate as your pseudo intellectual mathmatics usage?