Microsoft Pulls Vista SP1 Update

1shooter writes "news.com reports that Microsoft is withdrawing SP1 for Vista. Nick White, Microsoft product manager blogged 'We've heard a few reports about problems customers may be experiencing as a result of KB937287,' wrote White. 'Immediately after receiving reports of this error, we made the decision to temporarily suspend automatic distribution of the update to avoid further customer impact while we investigate possible causes.'"

Amiable Caucasian

>Nice White, Microsoft product manager...

Could some please inform Dave Chapelle of this person's name? ...and videotape his unedited response?

Re:Amiable Caucasian

I hope he has a daughter named "Snow"

Re:Amiable Caucasian

["Nice White"] The article actually says the person's name is Nick White.

Don't tell me, Microsoft OCR for Vista(TM)

       

Re:Amiable Caucasian

I'm a Microsoft Vendor, and have access to the MS phonebook via Outlook...

While you're checking, what's Steve Ballmer's direct line? I just wanted to share some, uh, customer feedback with him.

What?

What happened to problems with KB938371? Their little Windows Update updater that paves the way for the SP1 update is causing big problems here where I work- I'm looking at 3 machines right now that it's refusing to install on.

They need to think about this differently

If they imagine Vista to be a horrible cancer, and SP1 to be chemotheraphy, then this all seems better. Sure, it's going to make some sick and die, but for a few, it's going to be a cure for their problems. I say let it out and let people take their chances.

NOT SP1

I saw this on the firehose last night and it confused me then, it should have been edited.

The problem is not SP1, but rather an update for Windows Update/installation that is being installed in anticipation of SP1 next month. It's a required upgrade to run SP1, but it is not SP1 itself.

Re:NOT SP1

I totally agree. This is about an update that was released on Windows Update, and then withdrawn. SP1 has not been released yet to the end user.

This update just installs updates, and is a PREREQUESIT to SP1. Much as you have to install the Microsoft Genuine Advantage tool in XP before you can install Internet Explorer 7.
Slashdot really needs to start validating their sources

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937287 [microsoft.com]

Re:NOT SP1

If you cannot install this update because MS has pulled it, how can you install SP1?

You can't, whether you install this update or not, because SP1 has not been released yet. It's scheduled for release next month.

SP1 is stopped for now.

SP1 has not even started yet. This is yet another /. article seemingly about SP1 which actually isn't about SP1 becuase SP1 hasn't even been released. This is about a prerequisite to SP1.

Others

KB943899 plays havoc with laptops with misconfigured AHCI devices as well. This isn't reduced performance or anything trival like that; we're talking about full blown "cannot find boot device" BSODs on reboot.

I had to turn off automatic updates to stop the update from installing.

Classic MarketSpeak!

They're pulling the service pack because one of the pre-requisite patches you need to install before the service pack can even be applied is causing hard disk errors and requiring re-formats, although you can use the Vista CD to repair those errors, unless you paid for the downloadable version which doesn't come on a CD, and it only affects a minority of users in "unique circumstances" to begin with.

I love these guys.

Re:Classic MarketSpeak!

causing hard disk errors and requiring re-formats ... and it only affects a minority of users in "unique circumstances" to begin with. I love these guys.

In other words, Russian Roulette is not problematic because it is only harmful under "unique circumstances".

Well...

... I suppose that depends on how you define winning the game. :)

Re:The irony, it burns.

What burns even more is that the MS Product Manager's real name is Nick. It was a typo.

Re:The irony, it burns.

Looks like a case of autocorrection by the MS Word spellcheck to me. ;-p

As regards the last Vista-SP1-related-problem article, I found this [sans.org] that mentions said problem and how to solve it, if anyone needs that.

Re:The irony, it burns.

That's what I hate about Microsoft products. The stupid program assumes you're stupid. The stupid program forces you to do things backwards.

Microsoft seems to design for the developmentally disabled, and does a bad job of even that. And they can't seem to learn from their horrible mistakes. Did they learn from Clippy? Hell no, now they have the stupid dog on their XP search. If you tell the damned thing to gho away it comes back the next time you do a search. Yeah, I could probably google for a hack to fix it but damn it, I shouldn't have to.

Linux never does that shit to me.

Re:The irony, it burns.

"Yeah, I could probably google for a hack to fix it but damn it, I shouldn't have to.
Linux never does that shit to me."

So true. I've been using Lx since approximately Mandrake 5.1 (ask your dad), and have never had to, um, google up a fix for anything. Nope. Not once. Except of course 3-5 times a week.

NB: it's well worth it to me.

Re:Not a shock...

The money goes to
  Marketing Marketing Marketing
not
  Developers Developers Developers

Re:Not a shock...

Because you can test on ten thousand combinations of software and hardware and still hit less than 1% of the possible system configurations that exist?*

*Numbers from my arse - you get my point, though.

Re:Not a shock...

Yeah. Look you pack of yapping three inch tall dogs even blessed St. Job's stable of magic coding elves riding glowing pink unicorns can't seem to get things right half the time.

Recent OS fix creates problems [macfixit.com].

Recent OS fix creates problems [macfixit.com].

Recent OS fix creates problems [macfixit.com].

Hell, just read Mac Fix it [macfixit.com] and weep (a lot of us Mac users do). Quit yer bitching.

Re:Not a shock...

Let's entertain your ridiculous position for a moment.

Novatech [novatech.co.uk] currently sell the following parts:-

28 different AM2 motherboards.
21 different AM2 processors.
111 different PCI-E graphics cards.
17 sound cards.

So far, we have 1,109,556 different combinations of hardware you can build. That already exceeds my "10,000 combinations is less than 1% of the possible hardware and software configurations" comment.

Bear in mind that we haven't covered:
SATA/IDE hard drives
DVD writers
PCI cards of all types
USB devices
Anything from Intel whatsoever.

Re:Possible causes

You mean upgrade to XP, right?

Re:Hardly limited to unique circumstances

Well, considering universities have a decent amount of people, that the update will be installed on a large number of users at exactly the same time....that you didnt get 200 people at the same time bitching about it means that its a rather uncommon issue. Not uncommon ENOUGH. But uncommon.

Re:"Nice" White?

C'mon guys, the e isn't anywhere near the k on the keyboard!

Yes, but they both require a middle finger - I know my middle fingers get a little twitchy when I talk about Microsoft.

E and K

C'mon guys, the e isn't anywhere near the k on the keyboard!

I use a dvorak keyboard [wikipedia.org], you insensitive clod!