Vista Service Pack 1 Is Out 383
superglaze writes "What's to say? After much prevaricating and slipping out then pulling back, the first service pack for Windows Vista has actually been released. It's available for download now via Microsoft's sites, with an auto-update rollout scheduled for next month, and it should hit Amazon's virtual shelves on Wednesday."
So how long do I wait? (Score:4, Insightful)
A day? A week? Two?
Keeping in mind my only reason to install is annoyance with current Vista performance; I have no critical reason to update.
adoption rate (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Poor Vista. (Score:5, Insightful)
Awful or no, somebody will most certainly be getting screwed.
Bugs by Category (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I have successfully installed Service Pack 1. (Score:3, Insightful)
But still, not like the facts matter to The Register or Slashdot anymore... if they ever did.
Re:Auto upbreak. (Score:5, Insightful)
To hell with 'seem' - post benchmarks.
Re:I've been using it for a few weeks (Score:5, Insightful)
No matter how many times I see this it blows me away. This isn't an anti Microsoft bash - this is a serious efficiency issue - we have gone from a suggested 8Mb for WFWG 3.11 (1992/93 UK) to 2Gb in a generation. That's a massive jump considering that most users are still muddling about with a web browser and a word processor. I know that processor speeds etc have also increased exponentially but I can't help this nagging feeling that it's down to lazy coding.
Re:So how long do I wait? (Score:2, Insightful)
OK, like that prerequisite patch for Vista SP1 that - hold on, Vista found a new update and is installing it.
Anyway, like that prerequisite patch for Vista SP1 that - wait, it needs to reboot again.
Right, like that prerequisite patch for Vista SP1 that - hold on, Vista found a new update and is installing it.
As I was saying, like that prerequisite patch for Vista SP1 that - wait, it needs to reboot yet again.
So anyways, like that prerequisite patch for Vista SP1 that - hold on, Vista found a new update and is installing it. Wait, I think that's the same patch as last time.
Where was I? Oh, right, like that - dammit, it's forcing a reboot again. Hold on.
So remember that prerequisite patch for Vista SP1 that caused - DAMMIT, NO, I DON'T WANT TO TRY TO INSTALL IT AGAIN!!
Right, that Vista SP1 prerequisite patch that caused endless rebooting for the lucky ones and killed Vista for the unlucky ones?
We want XP-Service Pack 3 (Score:3, Insightful)
Lets hope that with this Vista SP out, MS will release XP-SP3.
Re:Auto upbreak. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Auto upbreak. (Score:-1, Informative)
Nice use of mod points, gentlemen, that's how Microsoft 'shills' are born.
Re:So how long do I wait? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Another coat of shellac (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Auto upbreak. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:is vista that bad? (Score:5, Insightful)
No, it is not "that bad."
Could it be better? Yes.
Should it have been tested longer before release? Yes.
Is it as bad as people say on boards like this one? No.
I just bought a brand-new HP dv6768se laptop from Best Buy, upgraded the Vista Home to Vista Ultimate, and am sincerely happy with the system. My HP 8020n has been running flawlessly for many months. Both systems were built for Vista, came with Vista, and have run nothing else.
Oh, Vista has its problems -- the annoying slowness of file copies and deletes being chief among them. But I can sit down and make a bitch-list for my Gentoo and Ubuntu systems as well; my friends with Macs have their own pet peeves with OS X. I love my Linux systems; I love my Vista machines. As with everything in life, nothing is perfect, and whether or not you like something or someone is largely based on your desire to be annoyed.
Re:Auto upbreak. (Score:3, Insightful)
He probably just has a lousy printer driver. I've never had spoolsv crash. (Oh and spoolsv crashing probably doesn't affect his system, it probably just restarts itself but posts a message saying it happened.) (I have seen a couple other services fail and restart themselves.)
Meanwhile, just the other day I saw this post:
Ubuntu 7.10 won't start up 'kernel panic'
[ 17.894410] RAM DISK: ran out of compressed data
[ 17.894466] invalid compressed format (err=1)
[ 17.895094] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)
I guess I should quip: "Man Linux sounds really great. I'm gonna run out and install it."
Vista doesn't deserve the abuse people heap on it. Or, if it does, an equal helping should be heaped onto Linux's and OSX because in my experience, all 3 oses are pretty good, but none are very close to perfect.
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