Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 21.2.2008
Microsoft has published a list of programs that will not work or that will suffer from reduced functionality after the installation of Vista Service Pack 1.
The list of programs consists mostly of security applications, such as Trend Micro Internet Security 2008. However, programs such as The New York Times Reader application also feature on the list. Users are advised to install updates from the application vendor to fix the problem.
"Windows Vista Service Pack 1 contains many security, reliability, and feature updates for Windows Vista," the company said. "A program may experience a loss of functionality after you install Windows Vista SP1. However, most programs will continue to work as expected after you install Windows Vista SP1."
The list is not considered to be comprehensive, and Microsoft has asked users who encounter problems with other applications to first restart their PC and, if they still encounter problems, to install a newer version of the program or contact the software vendor.
Without SP1 incompatibilities, Windows Vista is already facing an ingrained perception by enterprise users of incompatibility with old systems, said Joseph Sweeney, an analyst at Intelligent Business Research Services.
Issues of back compatibility require regression testing on old applications, making any deployment very painful to do in one install, he said. "In theory, you only have to fix it once, and you should be able to deploy it across your whole environment, but many organizations do not have a highly automated deployment."
The problems with SP1 will only make backward-compatibility issues worse, he said, especially since many companies have been waiting to deploy the operating system until the release of the service stack.
The positive thing about Vista, he said, has been that organizations are stepping back and looking at their deployment methods. Because the desktop market is maturing, the trend would have happened anyway, he said, but Vista's problems have acted as a catalyst.
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Comments(14)
uh.. but all the vista cracks will work, or if they don't, they will be recracked by the
time sp1 is ready for download from ms. the more they try to shove it down on us, the more
anger they get. ah well, 1 more year and bush will be gone and maybe ms will no longer
have such a good friend in the white house to cram software and coa & eula laws down our
throats!
yes, bush and gates call each other every night and chat like high school girls about
everything they can do to screw america up.
love ms is an idiot.
long live the vista cracks!
ppl, without bush their would be terrorists blowing us up on the trains, busses, at work
etc. remember september 11. bush didn't do anything. and before you say he wanted war, go
check out the documentry on tony blair. it shows that both leaders did not want to go to
war but had no choice becuase the u.n. had no clue on what to do. treaties, agreements
yeah right, tell us another one. bush, blair and howard did it to save your life, y.o.u.r
life!!! do you want to get blown up by these cowards?
gates is cool because we
can actually use our computers. macs have like a million restrictions and dodgy coding.
they already relesed their leopard "update" at around 300mb. glitch paradise. i have
used leopard, linux ubuntu and windows xp and vista. dont like xp. used it for 6 months
than moved to 2000 than vista when it was released. mac and linux have like zero
compatability with software on the market. no good games or software without the reduced
features of those of windows.
wil do get all your information from documentaries...you are brainless.
brainless! thats coming from somebody who can't spell "will".
bush gates are cool
by wont on 22.02.2008 - 09:02
wil do get all your
information from documentaries...you are brainless.
let me guess your also with white
power!!
jerk
both came to power by screwing the compitition and not because of their ablilties.
back to the article, as long as people upgrade to the latest versions there should
not be a problem.
history does not lie. just google and check for yourself. pre bush you could sell you coa
or ms cd or what ever you want. you could transfer your eula to someone else, fine. now,
it is a fed crime to do so. read for yourself. can't make this shiyte up. bush pushed it
and bill made billions more. check your wallet, mine is more empty than pre bush, how
about everyone else?
i'm wondering why some people here are still using vista and keep complaining. you can
do an install of linux and stay away from this site!!!
please bug off!
impeach cheney first!
tell linux to get thier head out of thier butts. you cant do much with linux except surf.
give me a list of recent decent games you can play with linux? what exactly should i use
linus for. is linux backwards compatible with all windows based applications? what about
drivers? i dont believe i see linux drivers on gigabyte for my 300.00 board. give it up!
id rather run windows 98 than linux!
anybody who thinks bush is good and was not involved in sep 11 should take a good hard
look in the mirror and see the f**khead thats looking at them.wake up for chris sake.its
all about smoke and mirrors and what the script say's.
i hate americas
viva indonesia
you guys think bush and ms are stuffing up america, try thinking of down under in aussie
land. sometimes unix systems look only just that bit better from all the ms over take on
the world of hard knocks. we get the crap just as much as you do, but as it's been posted
here, long live the vista crackers.
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cracks will work
By love ms on 22.02.2008 - 03:02