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

Bermuda Triangle

[explosivejared]

"It exiled all my Nvidia drivers to the Bermuda Triangle."

I always thought the Bermuda Triangle was caused by Satan or some paranormal magnetic field, but being a magical disturbance from a portal that Microsoft malevolently banishes things to makes much a lot of sense.

Re:Reasons SP1 doesn't appear in Windows Update

[westlake]

This is off-topic, I suppose. But does anyone else think that in 2008 it is lame for a web forum to require HTML code for casual formatting?

Re:I said "Ubuntu can do it".

[MrNaz]

Sure, right after you give me an example of where Ubuntu has been deployed on this scale and among this widely varied a set of hardware configurations.