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[News] [Rival] Vista Service Pack Even More Scary Than Vista RTM

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Vista Service Pack Even More Scary Than Vista RTM
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:44:33 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
My Lack of Confidence in Vista SP1

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| News Commentary. While troubleshooting a friend's Outlook woes, I found 
| Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ready for download and installation. I couldn't 
| risk it.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| My buddy loves Microsoft, but he detests Windows Vista. On Saturday, for the 
| umpteenth time, he praised Microsoft while we were driving to pick up his son 
| from playing paintball. See, my bookseller friend remembers trying to 
| automate his business before there was DOS—how much it cost and how little 
| benefit he got from the money spent.     
| 
| [...]
| 
| He had no idea what was there. My buddy smiled: "Hey, I just do what they 
| tell me," referring to Microsoft and the Office 2007 trial conversion. 
| 
| The computer had more pep after the software removal, but I haven't heard 
| whether or not Outlook is behaving better. My friend is ready to move to 
| another e-mail program; he asked about Mozilla Thunderbird. The bookseller 
| had heard of the software because of Firefox, which his son had installed on 
| the computer. Apparently, IE 7 also frequently crashes.     
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/my_lack_of_confidence_in_vista_sp1.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/2rbmls

Windows is losing its fans, including these two loyals. Windows Vista was
excellent news to Apple and Free software.


Recent:

Angry Vista Users Vent Over SP1 Driver Issues

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| The service pack is being withheld from machines containing one or more of 
| the listed drivers, because, as Microsoft put it in a support 
| document, "these device drivers are problematic on Windows Vista-based 
| computers when you update to Windows Vista SP1."   
| 
| That made an industry analyst wonder about Microsoft's driver testing 
| process. "When Microsoft said there were problems with drivers, I assumed it 
| was some odd scanner or camera, or an ancient printer or something," said 
| Michael Cherry, analyst with Directions on Microsoft, a Kirkland, Wash.-based 
| research firm. "But then I saw the list. It makes me wonder what's going on 
| with device driver testing.     
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143708-pg,1/article.html


Vista SP1: Threat or Menace?

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| The multimillion-dollar question is whether SP1 will be the hoped-for 
| catalyst that triggers a widespread migration from XP to Vista. The Service 
| Pack may help to allay concerns about code quality, but the perception that 
| Vista's benefits simply don't outweigh the risk of the upgrade remains a 
| challenge for Microsoft, particularly among business users.    
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/blogs/mcallister_on_software/143695/vista_sp1_threat_or_menace.html
http://tinyurl.com/328vkf


So Microsoft, Why Can’t I Get Windows Vista SP1?

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| Hey Microsoft, how about a tool that might tell users a) what the problem is, 
| b) where to get a new driver (if possible)? Seems to be that it wouldn’t be 
| that much work for Microsoft (well, maybe, to keep it up to date, but it 
| would really help end user satisfaction).   
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http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/5531


Windows is caught between Mac and Linux

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| For the first time in ages, the sale of new PCs with Windows as a percentage 
| of the PC market is declining sharply. The new winner is the Mac, but, while 
| no one does a good job of tracking the still-new, pre-installed Linux desktop 
| market, it's also clear that Linux is finally making impressive inroads into 
| Windows' once unchallenged market share.    
| 
| [...]
| 
| How Microsoft deals, or fails to deal, with this new challenge will determine 
| if Windows continues to be the dominant desktop operating system. Distracted 
| by its Yahoo buyout plans, its courtroom failures and its leadership changes, 
| Microsoft is in trouble, and that means the other desktop operating systems 
| have their best chance ever to knock Windows off the top of the desktop hill.    
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8541837412.html


Windows Vista SP1 Flunks Out At Penn

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| University of Pennsylvania tech staffers are advising faculty and students 
| not to upgrade to the new service pack for Microsoft's Windows Vista 
| operating system.   
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;?articleID=206905083


Vista SP1 downloaders bite back

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| Microsoft has acknowledged that the service pack will not install on 
| computers that use “incompatible” peripheral device drivers from the likes of 
| Realtek and Intel. 
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/20/vista_sp1_complaints/


Re: Configurating updates: stage 3 of 3 stuck in endless reboot loop  

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| My install of the SP1 RC Refesh has gone wrong.
|  
| Everytime I start the computer it says:
| 
| Configurating updates: stage 3 of 3 - 0% complete
| 
| And then reboots, and reboots, and reboots ... I had it rebooting for over an 
| hour before I stopped the madness. 
| All the safe modes does the same, so how do I uninstall the installer, 
| without being able to log in? 
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http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/showpost.aspx?postid=2848906&siteid=17

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