"Right now, Windows Vista SP1 is supposed to be slowly winging its way out to 140 million Vista users, offering better general stability and improved copying performance (albeit perhaps not for dual boot users). After a protracted testing period, SP1 was made available for download in March, and was released for the Automatic Update service in mid-April, where it will in theory trickle down onto most Vista machines over the next few months. But just how many Vista users will actually ever receive it? Microsoft has admitted some users may never be offered the option to download SP1 via Windows Update.
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2005-09-20
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Ok, ok, link from TFA: "Vista SP1 won't install on dual boot systems: Microsoft"
http://apcmag.com/vista_sp1_wont_install_on_dualboot_systems_micros...
Though I personally have installed Vista SP1 on my Vista Ultimate system with grub4dos, without a problem.
Member since:2005-09-21
If you use any sort of modern hardware,(running vista I would think this could be true) you have a very easy way of getting around Vista not installing in a dual boot system. Go into the bios, Change your hard drive position (eg Put vista as the first drive even if the drive is not) and also put it as 1 in boot priority. Then all you have to do is switch back to the drive that has grub or whatever bootloader you happen to have, and enter in the information to get it kicking. Not that big of a pain, especially for the crowd that is even interested in dual booting.
May not be as useful if you only have one drive.. but it works pretty reliably this way.
Member since:2005-12-15
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it's not so much a joke as more of a wake up call to MS.
the mpaa does not know what an operating system needs so don't pander to them.
there are so many ways for things to break "just to be safe" that it affects things it was never meant to. (bad performance, slower processing, crashes from dirvers.)
everyone is guilty until shot in the face with vista security...
Member since:2006-01-03
It seems to me that this may open up a serious security issue. Basically if a black hat can identify a vector of attack that was patched by SP1, said hacker can then target machines known to have hardware that would cause SP1 for Vista to not be installed and then exploit a known, and documented security issue.
And the beauty of it is Microsoft has already documented the bug for a malicious user which makes it that much easier.
Edited 2008-05-21 00:41 UTC
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I installed the betas and the RC's of SP1 and as the specific issues I was having were not fixed, I dumped Vista.
Completely.
My business is tech support for ISP's and we use 4 brands or wireless routers.
Vista would drop the wireless signal between 5 minutes and 2 days on all the routers and using a variety of test machines.
We have a Microsoft account manager, who promised the wireless fault was global across all Vista installs and Microsoft was working hard to get this fixed for SP1. It was bad pressing them in places like PCWorld, where the sales guy was trying to demonstrate a wireless laptop, and there was no connection.
Guess what ?
They have not fixed the wireless problem, and we have officially dropped support for Vista. We have remastered the install CDs and taken off all mention to Vista.
When the ISPs call us for Vista support, they are told they are on their own for supporting it, and it their customers want to use it, we can only advise them to use ethernet, not wireless.
