Vista SP1 kills third party applications
22 Feb 2008 | 07:33 GMT
Sheepish Vole explains pulling of product
RED-FACED executives at Microsoft have sheepishly explained that the reason that they have pulled Vista SP1 from distribution is because it reacts badly with some important third party applications.
According to CRN, on SP1's kill list are products from Trend Micro, Zonelabs, BitDefender, and Novell.
Vole has said that some applications may experience a loss of functionality after you install Windows Vista SP1. This is spin for 'they will not work at all'.
Trend Micro Internet Security 2008, Zone Alarm Security Suite 7.1, and BitDefender's AV and Internet Security products will not actually start, which in technical terms means they are 'completely buggered'.
The problem is that SP1 blocks these programs from starting after you install Windows Vista SP1.
A spokesman for Trend Micros said that there are some workarounds for the Vista SP1 compatibility problem which are being distributed through Trend's auto update service.
BitDefender also offers a free upgrade that fixes the problem.
Vole claims that there is a supported version of Zone Alarm Security Suite (7.1.218.0 or a later version) available.
However Novell's ZCM Agent 10.01 breaks completely and will never be supported in Vista, dispite Novell's recent love in with Microsoft over Open Sauce. µ
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