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According to a blog by ZDNet.com's Mary Jo Foley, a Microsoft representative said the build contained a "number of bugs that testers encountered in previous prerelease versions of SP1."
The update is largely a collection of bug fixes and performance and compatibility improvements, but includes some minor new features.
SP1 RC Refresh, as the update is known, requires previous versions of SP1 to be uninstalled before it can be replaced with Refresh, which may entail waiting for the computer to "reboot multiple times," according to Microsoft.
After multiple rebooting, a period of an hour is required to allow the installer service to "clean up and complete the uninstall" to prevent possible installation errors.
Those with Vista RTM need to install two to three updates, depending on their version of Vista, before they can welcome SP1 onto their computer.
Refresh is time-limited, with the deadline for uninstall being June 30, 2008. According to Foley, Microsoft still aims to have the official version of SP1 available within the first quarter of 2008.
On its Web site, Microsoft warned that it "does not recommend installing this software on primary or mission-critical systems."
Suzanne Tindal of ZDNet Australia reported from Sydney.
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I know it's mainly automated, but I cannot believe it takes an hour to complete.
It doesn't matter what OS you choose- if you don't maintain your system, then you have nobody to blame but yourself.
THIS IS WINDOWS VISSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since this doesn't apply to anyone here this isn't something to get
too worked up over. It will, at most, affect the 15,000 people who
agreed to take part in the *private* beta.
The article was somewhat opaque on this matter.
a "few" mission critical systems running the OS.
This is available for EVERYONE since 14th December 2007!
See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BE34577A-E925-48FB-9D6D-50FE9461F808&displaylang=en
I read news reports that Ms was saying this was the last version of windows and now I am hearing of Windows 2008?
Weird
What you might have heard is that Vista / Longhorn will be the last "big-bang" Windows release. Future versions might be released more incrementally, at a quicker pace.
But there is always the expectation of future versions of Windows. In fact Microsoft is already building the successor to Vista, code named Vienna.
"SP1 RC Refresh, as the update is known, requires previous
versions of SP1 to be uninstalled before it can be replaced with
Refresh, which may entail waiting for the computer to "reboot
multiple times," according to Microsoft.
After multiple rebooting, a period of an hour is required to allow
the installer service to "clean up and complete the uninstall" to
prevent possible installation errors."
In other words, you'll need several reboots and an hour or so to
install *IF* you have the SP 1 RC Refresh already installed. Since
you *don't* have the SP 1 RC Refresh installed this doesn't apply.
What it does mean is that if you do install this pre-release
version of SP 1 *it* may be necessary to go through this
uninstallation process when the final version comes out. Which
is pretty much just how things go when you beta test things.
A real irked Microsoft User!!!
PS: Your XP SP3 crashed my other system also. It was good that I was still able to do an uninstall!
I also stopped using Internet Explorer 7 in favor of the Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta (Very fast and reliable with few kinks). Hopefully the merits of Internet Explorer 8 improvements will be convincing for me to return the popular browser (most pages are coded for Internet Explorer).
Just the 2 cents of an objective Microsoft fanboy.
I left the masochistic route a long time ago and replaced Windows entirely @ home with Linux and OSX.
A large number of people did the same thing last year. This year, even more will do the same.
Microsoft is faced with having to convince folks that Vista is actually worth it, but there are no real features that justify the price. Sure, they did a few things under the hood, but functionally? Vista is no different than XP if you removed the eye candy.
Either way, MSFT has a hard road to travel over the next few years.
/P
News flash- It's A PUBLIC BETA. It's a RELEASE CANDIDATE. M$ should have the major bugs addressed before it gets this far. With as much money and manpower as M$ has, there is no excuse for this well established pattern of poor quality assurance. M$ doesn't take quality seriously, because they still have the arrogant belief that there are no real competitors and the consumer has no alternative to their products.
Make all the excuses you want- more and more people are switching to Mac and Linux every day.
It crashes, it's slow, the updates take forever to install and after installing it takes forever when rebooting the system. This isn't a SP: it's regular Vista Ultimate. I also don't know what the Ultimate is for: I don't seem to have anything that friends and colleagues who purchased the cheaper versions don't have.
Microsoft -- you've let us down. All kidding aside, I don't want to roll back to XP and reinstall everything. If you're reading this, please fix this operating system.
Defrag the computer over night (ALL DRIVES)!!!!
In the morning, restart the computer. You'll notice a noticeable difference. If you've already tried that, check to see if you have the "Required" amount of hardware to run it. You need at least the "Recommended" amount. What's the difference? Required is the minimum. Recommended is what MS recommends to run Vista fully without it crashing and taking forever. :-) Hope that defrag works.
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See all 55 Comments >>Other than that, I love the better performance. I'm only on 1GB RAM, 2GHz AMD Athlon Processor, with a 128 MB Video Card. No problems. Just my mic doesn't work :(
If anyone knows about how to fix it, I did a full install with Windows Home Basic and I have a built-in Realtek AC'97 sound card. Front and back mic connections don't work :(