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University of Penn. Recommends Against Vista SP1
At least one university liberal enough to accept the deeply flawed and mostly rejected Vista OS is recommending faculty and students stay away from SP1. "University of Pennsylvania tech staffers are advising faculty and students not to upgrade their computers to the new service pack for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. The school's Information Systems & Computing department said it will support Vista SP1 on new systems where it's pre-installed, but added that it 'strongly recommends that all other users adopt a "wait and see" attitude,' according to a newly published department bulletin." And CIO magazine doesn't quite go so far as to call on Microsoft to throw away Vista, but it does ask its readers to weigh in on that topic.
IIRC it's been standard advice for any Windows Service Pack since NT SP6.
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I have not really worked in the IT industry much yet as I'm completing my degree but in my personal experience I always like to wait until others have tried newly released things such as service packs, new releases of Linux, whatever... Thats standard practice for me. I don't want to install an Operating system or something critical like that should it start deleting my files from some kind of bug or something. I want it to be stable and tested before I install. I like to wait a few months before I install something that is released stable. Thats just the way I see it and I know others do this to.
With that stated I think its not a bad idea that Penn State is taking the "wait and see" approach. They are running a business and want to see how the service pack handles in the wild before they deploy. I'm not a Vista fan but this kind of "wait and see" approach makes logical sense/business sense.
Just my 2 cents...