Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6

netbuzz writes in to note that some early adopters of Microsoft Vista are reporting problems with Vista's implementation of IPv6. An example:"'We are seeing a number of applications that are IP-based that do not like the addressing scheme of IPv6,' says one user. 'We will send a print job to an IP-based printer, and the print job becomes corrupted. We're seeing this with Window's Vista machines. When IPv6 is installed, this happens without fail. As soon as we remove IPv6, all of our printer functions return to normal.'"

While You're In There

[Mateo_LeFou]

Disable this whole "internet" thing altogether. It's been full of security problems for Windows ever since someone dreamed it up.

Obligatory

[D-Cypell]

"2^32 unique addresses ought to be enough for anybody."

Also IPv4

[VincenzoRomano]

I suspect that also IPv4 is having problems.

Re:While You're In There

[Mr2cents]

I do that on the one windows box I have left: before I reboot, I unplug the network cable. It saves me an anti-virus license :-).

dot.Excuses ..

[rs232]

"We recognize that not all applications and drivers were up to date by launch and that there have been some compatibility issues as a result,"

"But we also know that Windows Vista is the highest-quality, most secure and most broadly supported operating system we've ever released."

Hameroff adds that Microsoft is running an IPv6 network and "to my knowledge has not experienced these types of issues"

Re:Oh My God

[alta]

doh, this attached the wrong story. My Fault, got click happy.

Re:Oh My God

[RandoX]

I think you responded to the wrong story, but you're amazingly on topic anyway.

So...

[Lisandro]

When IPv6 is installed, this happens without fail. As soon as we remove IPv6, all of our printer functions return to normal.

It fails without fail? ;)

Some kids are just social outcasts

[OverlordsShadow]

Why can't Vista just get along with all the other kids. Can't hardware, software, and protocols just all get along? Vista is beating up on the memory kids and thinks its a big tough shit against other Os's. I think someone in the playground needs to go over to Vista and say 'Hey asshole, calm it down or I'll be taking your lunch money next!' Moral: Kids and computers never play nice/fair.

Re:dot.Excuses ..

[QuietLagoon]

"But we also know that Windows Vista is the highest-quality, most secure and most broadly supported operating system we've ever released."

But mediocre is just not good enough anymore.

Re:Microsoft's IPv6 stack

[silgaun]

Quick, put a patent on the fix. That will show them.

It's a feature!

[Rob T Firefly]

'We will send a print job to an IP-based printer, and the print job becomes corrupted.

Ah-ha! You've discovered the undocumented, but terribly useful, user-papercut-protection device!

Microsoft's new motto:

[Spy der Mann]

Embrace, Extend, and Explode! :D

Re:While You're In There

[Haydre]

Thanks a lot, Al Gore.

We at MS...

[Anonymous Coward]

We at MS are absolutely sure that we implemented ipv6 according to the rules of the 8 layers of the ISO-model. Can't think what went wrong really ?!

Re:Microsoft's IPv6 stack

[jacksonj04]

Microsoft's IPv6 stack is extremely secure, more so than the Linux one. It achieves this by simply not talking to anything.

Micro$oft SOP Extract...

[alien-alien]

Standard Operating Procedure: To usurp a world standard and boost Microsoft sales:

(1) Deliver a "world standard" implementation
(2) ???
(3) Offer Microsoft-only extensions with subsequent "patch" (for efficiency of course)
(4) Developers use the extensions
(5) Standard subverted!!
(6) Profit

Implementation Notes:
step (2) may be completely omitted for already well established and widely adopted standards (e.g. C, C++)
step (2) has recently been proposed as "Break something important"

Re:While You're In There

[bigdavesmith]

Luxury.

Back in my day, we had to carry reels of tape through a lake, uphill both ways, and when we finally got home with the tape, our dad would beat us to death with a punch card.

Now you try telling that to the kids today, and they won't believe you.

Re:While You're In There

[Anonymous Coward]

You don't know when you have it easy!

When I were a nipper I used to carry stone tablets weighing 5 tonnes, over sharp gravel in't bare feet for five miles. Then I had to swim through boiling lava for 10 miles before eventually climbing a cliff face in howling winds just to reach my school. Once there my teacher would beat me severely all because I was out of breath.

Tell kids that today and they wouldn't believe you.