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.'"

What?

[Brian Gordon]

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.

Re:Windows Update downloaded SP1 on my PC last nig

[The Living Fractal]

SP1 was waiting for me this morning as well. I haven't yet installed it though. I have Ultimate 64. For me, stability has never been a concern and I am running an overclocked e8400 with 8gb of RAM. The system is very smooth. I haven't had any problems running games.. and the few games that I have run in DX10 are pretty nice looking compared to their DX9 versions. If you read the rhetoric on Slashdot you'll think Vista is a complete failure. I decided to try Vista for this new build, despite reading this rhetoric, because I knew that a great majority of the Slashdot posters who post about a Microsoft product have not in fact used the product. Slashdot readers are actually more herdlike and less independent than one might think.

Re:Not a shock...

[Your.Master]

Yes, because there are exactly three components to a computer system, with 3 manufacturers each, and each manufacturer has only one product at any given time.

Honestly, if you were correct, Microsoft wouldn't ever release software that would later be recalled. Because it would be unbelievably stupid. And no, despite the joking, Microsoft is not unbelievably stupid. Neither is Apple, with its far fewer combinations and still having update errors.

Re:The irony, it burns.

[thrash242]

That's completely true and I 100% agree, but you have to consider how utterly computer illiterate so many people are to understand why Microsoft products are so dominant. Many people are stupid when it comes to computers.

Oh, and you can turn Clippy off.

Vista doesn't even have the dumb thing.

Re:Curious - Why?

[Taelron]

I'm one of the Technet users that got a hold of SP1 after we all rioted. They sent it to their vendors and business/corporate customers but wouldnt release it to the Technet and MSDN networks. Considering we have to pay $500 plus a year for our subscriptions, we were highly ticked off we couldnt get access at the same time as RTM like we do with every other product (though ironically, Home Server isnt offered to us either).

I downloaded it and installed SP1 on a Vista Ultimate 32bit system, it took an hour on a Intel Q6400 3gb of ram system to run the update, as well as 3 reboots. The file sizes are 460mb for the 32 bit patch, 720mb for the 64bit patch, and 1.13gb for an ISO dvd image of both on one media.

Immediately after it was done Office 2007 failed to work anymore. Outlook would continually crash. I updated it, I went through all of Microsofts trouble shooting steps, all the technet forums, ensured there was no third party plug-ins. After exhausting everything else I went to the last link someone suggested to me, it was the pay for support line. Considering their patch broke their product, paying them to fix it was not an acceptable solution for me.

I also noticed the systems score dropped, it went from an overall rating for 5.2 (tested just before the install) down to 5.0 after the install of the service pack. Granted it was only a 0.2 drop, but for a service pack thats suppose to improve the systems efficency to lower the systems scores, you have to wonder...

I finally wiped the machine and reinstalled XP on it. I posted that as my final solution to the issue on the Technet forums and stated I will not recommend Vista to business customers. Since then I have been getting calls twice a day from Microsoft... I'm just not answering to see what they want.

Proof: Number calling me: [phone]
Whocalled.us lookup: Microsoft Technet

Re:The irony, it burns.

[sm62704]

ask your dad

My dad's 76 years old and never used a computer in his life. My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair 1000 I bought when I was about 30, around the time the IBM PC came out.

I've been using Mandrake/iva since eight point something, and yes I've googled, and asked slashdotters, but that's the price of Linux. If I can't get decent documentation and ease of use, what's the point in spending all that money?

DOS came on one floppy, and its manual was an inch and a half thick. Windows comes on a CD and its manual (if you can call it that) is about thirty pages IIRC.

If I bought Mandriva at a store (If I could I would but I can't find it for sale anywhere) I wouldn't expect to google for a fix then, either. If it wasn't in a manual I'd call their tech support, and bitch about the shitty manual while I was on the line with them.

All software sucks, all software has always sucked, but it shouldn't. Maybe sometime in the future it won't.