Posted by Grant Foraker on April 30, 2008 at 13:50:00:
From a WindowsITPro newsletter.
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Apparently, Microsoft determined that 19 drivers for things like sound, Web cams, fingerprint sensors, display drivers, smart card controllers, a wireless WAN access card, and a component of a Symantec application are all so unstable when run on Vista SP1 that it's a bad idea to let SP1 install in the first place. The result was that some users were unable to install SP1, and all because of a few bad drivers – Windows Update was saying, in effect, "you can't get SP1 until you get rid of those lousy drivers." Some of the drivers had been updated by their vendors, but not all were, putting those users in an impossible position. I guess it makes a sort of sideways sense, given SP1's whole raison d'etre: It makes Vista more stable, and what's the point of that if you know you're running a known "bluescreener" of a driver? But it seems a mite harsh.
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