University says no to Vista SP1
After the drama that ensued about Microsoft putting out the Vista Service Pack 1 only to take it back, comes more bad news. The University of Pennsylvania’s tech support reportedly advised its faculty and students not to upgrade to Vista SP1.
InformationWeek‘s Paul McDougall had the lowdown:
“The school’s Information Systems & Computing department said it will support Vista SP1 on new systems where it’s preinstalled, but added that it “strongly recommends that all other users adopt a ‘wait and see’ attitude,” according to a newly published department bulletin.”
Why the bad press? Seems that Penn’s ISC department is wary about upgrading after recent Vista SP1 users’ reports of glitches. They’ve cautiously advised users at UPenn to ensure their systems have at least a dual-core or hyperthreading processor with no less than 1.5GB of RAM before upgrading to Vista SP1.
Anyone who’s used Vista since its Beta days will tell you frankly that Vista is resource-hungry, with the most comfortable computing experience with it only achievable with at least 2GB of RAM. That’s even with the new dual-core HT-ready processors available.
If Microsoft’s track record with XP’s first Service Pack is followed, then you’d best back up your PC or create a just-in-case image before trying SP1. To err on the sake of caution, perhaps waiting to see how many patches it needs would be a better choice in mission-critical environments.
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March 24th, 2008
You know, not everyone out there is having a terrible experience with Vista SP1. Here’s an article about how it worked just fine.
http://computermaint.webs.com/articles.htm?blogentryid=3171044
I guess it’s only news if it’s negative though. Oh well. Keep on going, all you microsoft haters! It’s real original and really shows that you know how to stick it to the man!