Microsoft says Vista SP1 won’t change much, urges not to hold off on upgrade
Microsoft is at it again, trying to convince businesses and some users alike that Vista SP1 does not have that many changes and it is not worth holding off your upgrade.
With its latest claims the company is specifically targeting businesses who have delayed migrating to Vista and are sitting around with good old relibable Windows XP either waiting for the final version of SP1 or just skipping Vista entirely and waiting for Windows 7.
Several applications still have a severe lack of compatibility with Vista and those issues are not likely to be fixed in Vista SP1 which is more about patching up a few security holes and improving performance as well as adding more device drivers.
InformationWeek says businesses can begin testing applications on Vista now because SP1 will change very little about the way it actually works.
The main problem with Vista and applications is the security feature known as User Account Controls which was designed to enhance security but the pop-up dialogs and constant warnings easily drive the most dedicated user to insanity, quickly and is usually the first thing turned off.
For example, previous versions of Adobe Reader required UAC turned on to install properly, if it was off the installer would either fail or exit, the only way to fix this was to uninstall Reader and then reinstall it with UAC turned on and then turning off UAC again. This issue has been fixed.
When Vista released not many security applications were ready for it due to the way UAC works at the kernel level, many firewalls were also affected.
According to Microsoft, “the changes made in the Windows Vista release that enhance security, reliability, and networking that might cause earlier versions of applications to break are being carried forward in Windows Vista SP1.”
Applications that currently work on Vista will continue to work and the ones that don’t will continue not working, well, we can’t have everything now can we?
In related news at GottaBeMobile, it seems that Vista SP1 may now finally report all 4GB of memory if that much is installed in a system. However, it appears this is a report only and that much memory is still not usable by 32-bit editions of Vista.
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