Service pack woes
Just when you thought it was safe to update your Windows XP and Vista machines with the latest service packs, the company announces compatibility issues with Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS) that likely will keep both Vista SP1 and XP SP3 grounded for a few days, if not weeks. Sure, only retail businesses use Microsoft RMS and the service packs are floating around out there on the Internet for anyone who really wants them. But as we know all too well, the folks in the C-level suite won't look too kindly upon the IT department installing software that's not officially supported, no matter what the reason. Did you manage to install the service packs before Microsoft pulled them from its website? Are you biting your nails in anticipation of the day when you'll be able to install SP1 and/or SP3? Do you just not care anymore? Let us know in the comments. -Mehan
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By Anonymous | Posted 4:37pm | May 2, 2008
Upgrade cluster from MS. Had to upgrade a windows vista home pro hp laptop to vista ultimate. this upgrade required vista sp1, of course not included in the upgrade. Took some diligence to even locate it. The upgrade process took nearly 8 hours of continuous thrashing. Fortunately the end result worked. Another step closer to a Mac. As bad as this upgrade was, the wholesale user experience change and down-rev cluster with Office 2007 "upgrade" is the standing grand-prize wiener.
By Laurie Lamberth | Posted 5:00pm | May 2, 2008
I'm in the "don't care any more" category. I started to install SP1 to fix a problem I was experiencing with daylight savings time, then found another solution so walked away from the SP1 mess.
I did try to install the SP1 update from the MSFT website before it was pulled down, but it failed fairly early-on. With further research, I discovered the two (or is it three?) prerequisite updates that were needed and they wouldn't run either so I abandoned the quest. No apparent problems with my machine, although my BlackBerry is now an "unidentified UBS device" when I plug it in (but the BB Desktop Manager still works).
I'm going to wait until either my laptop maker or MSFT's update manager tells me my machine needs to be updated -- plus a couple of weeks so I can see what happens the others who go first. If it never comes, I really don't care.
By Buff Oon | Posted 7:16pm | May 3, 2008
for immediate release May 3 2008 00:04:36
It is widely being reported by the Security Software Community
that Microsoft did not create the "Vista" OS, but that a large group
of Virus and Spyware hackers created "Vista" as a highly functional
virus similar to an OS and that is able to download several types of
Trojans,Bots and Worms disguised as a windows update file system.
The highly functional spyware is designed to steal Identities, log
surfing and shopping/purchasing habits and secure private
banking and credit card information off thier victims.
It has also just been discovered that the malware is probably
designed to destroy the computers of thier victims covering any
traces of hacking or security breaches.
It seems that Microsoft, being the large Multileval, Multiproduct,
Mulititiered Management and Multipromotional Product Marketing
Institution, was under the impression that one of thier departments was
tasked with creating a new OS, we now know to have been "Vista".
This is apparently how this large group of hackers was able to
work in the open, using Microsofts sometimes inability to know
who is doing what, when and where and who is in Charge.
The Computer manufacturers who Installed the Virus into thier
new computers as an OS OEM were apparently unaware of the Huge
ruse pulled on them, being more interested in introducing thier
new line of multi-processor business and industry models, as
well as lesser models for the private purchasing markets.
April U. Full