March 24, 2008
U. of Pennsylvania to Computer Users: Don't Use Vista SP1
University of Pennsylvania technology officials are recommending to students and faculty members that they not install Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 on their computers, according to an article published Friday in Information Week. The operating system is an upgrade to Vista.
The software reportedly is laden with bugs that make it difficult to download. Once computer users have downloaded it, many have found that it slows their PC’s.
The university’s information-technology department is advising campus computer users to stick with Windows XP or Vista until the glitches are corrected. The department says it will support Vista SP1 only when it is preinstalled on computers. —Andrea L. Foster
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Going back to the DOS days, it’s been pretty common knowledge that you never user the first release of anything that Microsoft puts out. I have been pretty safe waiting for the second set of patches and/or service packs before I move to the new product.
— Scott Mar 24, 08:56 AM #
Our College has installed Vista SP1 on over half of our college-owned machines and several of our students have installed this as well. Other than a few driver problems that were easily solved, no major problems. Few products are free from some sort of bug, we focus on identifying and creating work-arounds rather than telling people to not use it, especially when it will be bundled on new computers.
— Chris R Mar 25, 07:24 AM #
Redmond WA (2008): computer technology::
Rome (1408): religion
— Dan Kirklin Mar 25, 09:42 AM #
“Going back to the DOS days, it’s been pretty common knowledge that you never user the first release of anything that Microsoft puts out.”
That advice also applies to the Zune, Microsoft’s mp3 player. The updated software released last November was a mess, and it took Microsoft more than two months to fix (most of) the bugs. I’d love to know how many people returned the Zunes they got for Christmas because the software was so screwy. (BTW, I didn’t return mine, and now I’m quite satisfied with the product.)
— greenblue Mar 26, 11:49 AM #