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Vista SP1 delayed by drivers
Author: Gareth HalfacreePublished: 12th February 2008
If you're hoping that SP1 will iron out some of the kinks in Vista for you, better check your drivers.
In a post to the Vista Blog Microsoft Vice President Mike Nash said the reason for the delay was due to “an issue with a small set of hardware devices that may not function properly after the Windows Vista-based PC they are installed on is updated to SP1.”
Nash says the company is “working with the manufacturers of these devices to get the drivers and their install programs updated,” and that the problem can be worked around by “more technical customers” by “simply uninstalling and reinstalling the driver.”
Microsoft is well aware, however, that the vast majority of its customer base have difficulty finding the 'any' key, so is delaying the general release until the problem is resolved. SP1 is already available to participants in the beta test, and plans are afoot to start trickling the update out to Volume License holders starting at the end of this week. Subscribers to the Microsoft Developer Network and TechNet Plus, however, will have to wait until the end of the month. General release for end-users is scheduled for mid-March.
Nash is adamant that the RTM version of SP1 is final, stating that the company doesn't “plan to make any changes to the SP1 code prior to public availability.” Nevertheless, it's interesting that the company is unwilling to name names when it comes to the compatibility problem: it might be a 'small number' of manufacturers, but if those manufacturers are along the lines of Nvidia and Hewlett-Packard it's going to bite a massive number of customers if they don't get it sorted before general release.
Any beta-testers here run into this problem, or are we all waiting for the general release and letting others encounter such 'undocumented features'? Let us know over in the forums.
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shame those small manufactures don't get their drivers up to scratch. just look at my system, not a single small companies junk
According to one of the techs I was speaking to here, Toshiba is one of em, no surprises really when Toshibas laptop driver support for plain Vista has much to be desired!
Really? I've been running it on my Toshiba laptop for about 8 months now, and not had a single problem. And it's not even vista certified.
Mind you, each system to it's own problems I guess.
As for it being delayed, mid march isn't too bad (Unless I misread the article). At least they're taking the time to get it right before releasing it.
Can't say I've seen a huge difference tbh. :/
Beleive its the older tosh laptops like some from the portage and tecra range, I know for a fact that when using vista on the older tosh's there was a number of issues, especialy with regards to gfx drivers, of which here there is now a patch/fix update called "Windows Vista Performance Optimizer" for a few of the tosh laptops, models that are still heavily used by 1000's of employees at MS.