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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master

NRT-0443 Windows VISTA SP1 Not Recommended:

Windows VISTA SP1 is having a tough time getting into the Ivy League. University of Pennsylvania tech staffers are advising faculty and students not to upgrade their computers to the new service pack for Microsoft's Windows VISTA operating system. The school's Information Systems & Computing department said it will support VISTA SP1 on new systems where it is preinstalled, but added that it "strongly recommends that all other users adopt a 'wait and see' attitude," according to a newly published department bulletin. Penn's ISC department advises users to continue using previous versions of Windows XP and Windows VISTA until after the initial bugs in SP1 are identified and fixed. VISTA SP1 users have reported numerous glitches since the operating system became widely available on Tuesday, 18MAR08. Penn's ISC department said computer users at the Ivy League school should have systems that employ at least a dual-core or hyperthreading processor and a minimum of 1.5GB of RAM before considering an upgrade to VISTA SP1. That's well above Microsoft's stated minimum requirements for the operating system, which recommends at least a 1 GHz, single core processor, with 1GB of RAM to run the Premium, Business, and Ultimate versions of VISTA.

(InformationWeek 21MAR08)

Last Modified: Thursday, 03-Apr-2008 21:45:48 EDT