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’s pre-installed, but added that it “strongly recommends that all other users adopt a ‘wait and see’ attitude,” according to a newly published department bulletin.
The company said users will have to wait for the updated drivers, which will be available “in the coming weeks”. The drivers in question are for Endpoint Protection and Network Access Control, two of Symantec’s flagship enterprise security products. Microsoft released Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to Windows Update on Tuesday. However, in the Vista team blog, Vista product manager Nick White wrote that some vendors’ drivers “may be problematic after an update from Windows Vista to Windows Vista SP1″. Symantec Endpoint Protection and Network Access Control clients were among the list of drivers affected by SP1.
The full list of hotfixes and security updates is ridiculously long and even the smaller breakdown of notable changes is still not what you might call easy reading. For the impatient then, here’s a quick summation of the most important changes and fixes - at least in this writer and Vista user’s opinion:


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