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20 Mar 2008
Some early upgraders to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 have been venting their spleens on Microsoft's Vista team blog complaining of compatibility issues.
The service pack was made publicly available just 24 hours ago.
"I downloaded it via Windows Update and got a blue screen on the third part of the update," wrote 'Iggy33'.
An equally unhappy 'SeppDietrich' wrote: "What a disaster. It exiled all my Nvidia drivers to the Bermuda Triangle."
'Bikkja', meanwhile, complained of performance issues, saying: "After installing SP1 things seem to go really slow, even though my computer shouldn't have any problems."
IT veterans will know that major software patches often come with attendant gremlins when first given a public outing. Early adopters typically rush to install the new software, encounter problems and then wait for Microsoft to fix them.
In a bid to manage user expectation, Microsoft has made it clear that Vista SP1 will not install on computers that use peripheral device drivers which the company deems incompatible.
The software giant has published a list detailing anticipated incompatibilities.
Microsoft claims that Vista SP1 features more than 300 fixes, including a patch that allows users to run the BitLocker encryption tool on multiple hard drives and an improvement in the speed with which the OS wakes up from hibernate mode.
Vista users can download Vista Service Pack 1 for free from the Windows Update site. Those preferring the retail touch can buy boxed versions from the likes of Amazon.
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i installed vista service pack on my toshiba and had my windows devalidated i ran a product key finder prog and the reg for my product was totally different than the 1 on my laptop base(error report was an unauthorised change has been made to your product registration i contacted microsoft to see if they were looking at this issue whereupon i received an email asking me to phone them after they had tried everthing i had already tried there verdict was your pc has serious internal problems and we would advise u use your recovery discs regardless to say i lost a years work (i know i should have had it backed up but who among us is perfect all im saying is if this happens to you dont look to microsoft for the answer save yourself the price of a call mind when you do get through to there switchboard there is the usual option press 1,2,3,4,5 for whatever but there just happens to be one that says for service pack issues please press #### just goes to show they do know there are issues ah well have fun i just finished installing the last of my progs (norton ghost ha ha)
Posted by: john 19 Apr 2008
Not sure how I could tell that SP1 makes life worse...
I really was looking forward to installing SP1... I thought it would make life good again (fixing some of the bugs). I've been an ongoing advocate of Vista as it has a lot of plus's regarding security and advances in overall computing philosophy, and I really wouldn't ever want to go back to XP but... oh dear, I think Microsoft have got themselves (and me) into some real trouble with Vista. I'm sure it's not as bad as it seems but I suspect some departmental heads are making promises on development time frames that the poor developers are struggling to meet. Microsoft's .NET framework was a humungous leap forward (one that is still not praised anywhere near enough) for all of us, and Vista was a very natural next step forward from that, so one cannot be over critical of the wish to push and drive technology forward (although I think some new thinking is needed to determine the direction that computers and software will take). Microsoft have been responsible for so many ground breaking innovations that statistically they simply have to throw up a dud from time to time. Horrifying as it is, I think that Vista is going to be a problem for a little while to come but it will improve, it will get better and be an operating system that we can rely on, in time. I'm gritting my teeth and trying to be patient. Microsoft should send their development team on a mini-break and brain storming session so they can come back to the problem rested and alert. I think that they and we really need them to do that. Just my opinion and YMMV as they say.
Posted by: David Lambert 26 Mar 2008