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Microsoft Documents Vista SP1 Failures

Well, failures of driver installations, to be specific...and printers in particular did not fare well.

By the way, many thanks to those of you who have written to share your opinions of Vista SP1 for Redmond magazine's reader review. We're a little late following up with you (sorry about that), but someone from the magazine will be in contact this week.

Posted by Lee Pender on November 11, 2008


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