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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.
Vista SP1 breaks things. Important things. Like important programs.
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XP works just fine for me. I don't care about eye candy in my OS that much anyway.
Interestingly, most people still choose 6 year old XP over a brand new OS X.
>Did Twitter just scour the internet for anti-Vista articles and throw them all into one stupid Slashdot submission?
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We have a few vista boxes at work and have been running sp1 since the RTM and I dont see the difference between this OS and XP, but if all you read is slashdot youd think its like digital arsenic. Of course if all you read is slashdot you would also think that NT is just a unix wannabe, 2000 an expensive upgrade for those who already have 95 and dont need it, and that XP is just 2000 with fisher price colors, so you'd be coming from a biased place anyway. Its hilarious to hear the love some people have for XP now, especially when it was thoroughly trashed here just a few years ago. Oh I almost forgot XP SP2 'broke everything' so should be avoided.
These guys pulled some strings?
http://www.apple.com/education/profiles/upenn/
The shirts make these guys look bought - not funded.
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you said I'd highly recommend that Vista users install SP1. That's commendably honest of you. You have to be high to recommend Vista and SP1 has not helped. If you have anything useful to add to the Vista failure log, I'd be happy to hear it but I can wait until you sober up. Enjoy the rest of your Easter weekend.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
when Tony says that he gave up Vista a few months ago and, "XP on the same hardware can saturate [his 2Gb network]" we can safely assume he has no hardware problems.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Because your journal is empty. Put up or shut up.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.