Windows Vista SP1 Release Delayed By Driver Troubles

[weasel]

interesting read again for vista users

day after Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) announced that it has finished work on the first major update to its Windows Vista operating system, the company conceded that many users won't have access to the software any time soon due to driver incompatibilities.

"We're still in the process of reaching out to the specific hardware partners that are affected and are providing them with the necessary guidance to ensure a smooth installation," a Microsoft spokesman said Tuesday.

In other words, Microsoft has yet to finish ensuring that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will work properly with keyboards, printers, mice, and other peripheral devices commonly attached to personal computers.

Such peripherals use bits of software called drivers to communicate with the host computer.


readon here:
http://www.informationweek.com/softw...leID=206104469

[Azrael]

hahah, leave it to M$ for leaving this till it was "due". Hahah, doesn't really matter, I've got a little time, it is a leap year after all .

[Tefra]

We shouldn't blame for everything MS, some manufacturers even one year after the official release still don't provide full working drivers for the not so new products, or they ask for the impossible to pay to get vista drivers, see creative lol.