Vista Service Pack 1 released TODAY.

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Larry - 18 Mar 2008 22:56 GMT

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080318/microsft_vista_sp1.html?.v=4

Those hobbled with this PoS should probably upgrade tonight if you can get
into the server....

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Steve Sobol - 18 Mar 2008 23:41 GMT

> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080318/microsft_vista_sp1.html?.v=4
>
> Those hobbled with this PoS should probably upgrade tonight if you can get
> into the server....

Bad advice. Like XP SP2, Vista SP1 has caused a ton of problems. I'd wait.
(I waited nine months before finally installing SP2 on my family's XP
machines.)

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Larry - 19 Mar 2008 05:23 GMT

> Like XP SP2, Vista SP1 has caused a ton of problems.

How can it cause a ton of problems. It's only been out a few hours....(c;

Oh, never mind....Micro$oft....(c;

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Steve Sobol - 19 Mar 2008 06:07 GMT

>> Like XP SP2, Vista SP1 has caused a ton of problems.
>
> How can it cause a ton of problems. It's only been out a few hours....(c;
>
> Oh, never mind....Micro$oft....(c;

Indeed. :)

People who tried the release candidates of SP1 had various degrees of trouble,
from device incompatibilities to system freezes.

XP SP2 is stable *now* and has been for a long time, but for the first
couple months after SP2 is released, there were a lot of people who had
major issues installing it. That's why I put off installing it for so long.
Apparently Vista SP1 isn't going to be any different.

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Larry - 19 Mar 2008 14:18 GMT

> People who tried the release candidates of SP1 had various degrees of
> trouble, from device incompatibilities to system freezes.

Unlike the open source community's competition and peer pressure to get it
right to save face, Micro$oft isn't under such pressure. Their products
are the result, and have been since DOS 1.0, which was just awful. Of
course, they stole that from someone else.....in the open source community,
if my memory serves me right...(c;

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Steve Sobol - 19 Mar 2008 18:49 GMT

> Unlike the open source community's competition and peer pressure to get it
> right to save face, Micro$oft isn't under such pressure.

I have to disagree there. If you're MS and you screw up, you run the risk of
pissing off Fortune 500 companies who hand you millions of dollars every year.

Of course, after the other fiascos they've caused over the years (XP SP1,
Millenium, etc.), you'd think they'd have learned by now...

(There has to be a more on-topic newsgroup for this discussion. Not sure which
one is the right one though.)

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Larry - 19 Mar 2008 19:00 GMT

> I have to disagree there. If you're MS and you screw up, you run the
> risk of pissing off Fortune 500 companies who hand you millions of
> dollars every year.

Billy's got that covered. Those same companies own the Micro$oft stock!

To piss them off requires the stock price to drop and they wouldn't do that
to themselves, would they?

Why else would a big company run NT??

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