Microsoft stops delivery of Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3
If you were hoping to get Vista SP1 or Windows XP SP3 installed to your respective operating system, it may take a bit more time. Microsoft has suspended the delivery of both service packs after some additional compatibility problems were discovered.
According to TechTree, the service packs don’t play nice with the Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System which is primarily used by small and medium-sized businesses. It’s doubtful that businesses are in a rush to deploy any new service pack or update from Microsoft and the only people really interested in getting their hands on the update are consumers.
There is no way to tell which computers to deliver the update to so Microsoft had to suspend the delivery to all systems. How about just checking to see if the Microsoft RMS is in use and not offer to install the service pack, wouldn’t that work?
It should still be possible to download the service packs from any number of third party sources, see this post for download links to Windows XP SP3 if you want to install it. As for Windows Vista SP1, any decent search engine should be able to find it but its already been delivered to plenty of people already, anyway.
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April 30th, 2008
But MSFT made a good move, its better to work out all the bugs before releasing this…or anything than to have to back track and fix the fix.
Installed XP SP3 build beta on a older XP Home machine and didn’t note any difference either way.
But what about those new Vista machines I saw advertised in the newspaper ads already released with SP1?
April 30th, 2008
Let’s hope the next (13th)Tuesday in May doesn’t result in MSFT resetting the SP1 clock~!
Stay away..my puter works perfectly.
May 1st, 2008
This recognition of incompatibility by Microsoft (and the fact that the company is doing something about it) is a good sign for how it will release and handle products in the future. Microsoft has tried fairly hard since the Vista debacle to respond to customer needs and create a better, more usable product. That coupled with its increased interest in serving the under-served small business market and a revamping of its partner programs to provide more comprehensive services shows that it’s on its way to becoming a stronger choice than before for many business and home users. I think that it will be interesting to see how it develops its new products. Hopefully it will take more time and do more testing before releasing another sub-par product.