Vista SP1 flunks university test

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By Egan Orion: Friday, 21 March 2008, 4:31 PM


VISTA SP1 isn't good enough to install yet, according to the computer
support staff at the University of Pennsylvania.

The University's Information Systems and Computing organisation has
advised faculty and students not to upgrade to SP1 any computers they
might have that are running Windows Vista, Information Week writes.

The university techies said they will support Vista SP1 that's been
pre-installed on new systems, but cautioned in a bulletin to campus
users that it "strongly recommends that all other users adopt a 'wait
and see' attitude."

The Ivy League school's technical support staffers advised "continuing
to use previous versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista until after the
initial bugs in SP1 are identified and fixed."

Perhaps the graybeards among the Penn techies - those who were around in
2002 - remember how Windows XP SP1 caused a lot of problems that had to
be fixed with later patches. µ
 
Re: Vista SP1 flunks university test

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By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
March 21, 2008 10:53 AM


Windows Vista SP1 Is having a tough time getting into the Ivy League.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206905083

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However, in my view, this is not very surprising. Neither is it unknown that
IT support recommend a "go slowly and cautiously" approach with any set of
substantial software changes that potentially involves numbers of boxes that
they support. Especially true with any that include possible device drivers
changes.

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007






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> Vista SP1 flunks university test
> Penn ban
>
> By Egan Orion: Friday, 21 March 2008, 4:31 PM
>
>
> VISTA SP1 isn't good enough to install yet, according to the computer
> support staff at the University of Pennsylvania.
>
> The University's Information Systems and Computing organisation has
> advised faculty and students not to upgrade to SP1 any computers they
> might have that are running Windows Vista, Information Week writes.
>
> The university techies said they will support Vista SP1 that's been
> pre-installed on new systems, but cautioned in a bulletin to campus users
> that it "strongly recommends that all other users adopt a 'wait and see'
> attitude."
>
> The Ivy League school's technical support staffers advised "continuing to
> use previous versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista until after the
> initial bugs in SP1 are identified and fixed."
>
> Perhaps the graybeards among the Penn techies - those who were around in
> 2002 - remember how Windows XP SP1 caused a lot of problems that had to be
> fixed with later patches. µ
 
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