Windows Vista SP1 Meeting Sour Reception In Places

Stony Stevenson writes "A day after it was released for public download, Windows Vista SP1 is drawing barbs from some computer users who say the software wrecked their systems. 'I downloaded it via Windows Update, and got a bluescreen on the third part of the update,' wrote 'Iggy33' in a comment posted Wednesday on Microsoft's Vista team blog. Iggy33 was just one of dozens of posters complaining about Vista Service Pack 1's effect on their PCs. Other troubles reported by Vista SP1 users ranged from a simple inability to download the software from Microsoft's Windows Update site to sudden spikes in memory usage. To top it all off, the service pack will not install on computers that use peripheral device drivers that Microsoft has deemed incompatible."

Comments

I can't hold it in!

[NordicPC]

This is killing me. Doesn't anyone remember XP before SP2?!?! BSOD's all the time. It took 4 years to get that OS right. Or, for you "Linux is perfect" people, how about the 2.6.0 kernel? That didn't have any issues at all, did it? Maybe you want to say Ubuntu is great, but I still can't play TF2 on it after a solid two nights of hacking away (and I'm not exactly a n00b). Maybe Mac OS 10.5 is perfect? Of course not! Customers are constantly bitching to me about Mail that can't send, Finder moving icons around randomly, etc. etc. Windows Vista worked on the most hardware out the gate of ANY OS I've ever used. Now, Microsoft would like you to run Windows Update and upgrade your drivers before you install SP1, and we're upset?!?! WTF guys, look a little deeper before your "Microsoft Sucks" beeper goes off. And thank you for the other intelligent people above who actually use the OS, installed the Service Pack and then made up their mind.

Son't even start me on Linux

[Joce640k]

I can't remember the Linux patch which didn't break the webcam driver, etc.