By Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet Australia
Posted on ZDNet News: Feb 21, 2008 6:19:00 AM

The list of programs consists mostly of security applications, such as Trend Micro Internet Security 2008. However, programs such as The New York Times Reader application also feature on the list. Users are advised to install updates from the application vendor to fix the problem.

"Windows Vista Service Pack 1 contains many security, reliability, and feature updates for Windows Vista," the company said. "A program may experience a loss of functionality after you install Windows Vista SP1. However, most programs will continue to work as expected after you install Windows Vista SP1."

The list is not considered to be comprehensive, and Microsoft has asked users who encounter problems with other applications to first restart their PC and, if they still encounter problems, to install a newer version of the program or contact the software vendor.

Without SP1 incompatibilities, Windows Vista is already facing an ingrained perception by enterprise users of incompatibility with old systems, said Joseph Sweeney, an analyst at Intelligent Business Research Services.

Issues of back compatibility require regression testing on old applications, making any deployment do you need a prescription for viagra very painful to do in one install, he said. "In theory, you only have to fix it once, and you should be able to deploy it across your whole environment, but many organizations do not have a highly automated deployment."

The problems with SP1 will only make backward-compatibility issues worse, he said, especially since many companies have been waiting to deploy the operating system until the release of the service stack.

The positive thing about Vista, he said, has been that organizations are stepping back and looking at their deployment methods. Because the desktop market is maturing, the trend would have happened anyway, he said, but Vista's problems have acted as a catalyst.

Suzanne Tindal of ZDNet Australia reported from Sydney.

Q:
Can you please tell me what the difference is between Run and Save? Thank you!

A:
This question has been popping up all over the place lately, so I figured we should go over it again. Here's a discount viagra online quick refresher for you on the difference between Run and Save. Let's go!

When you're downloading something from the Internet, you will more than likely have the option to choose between Run and Save. Either of those will lead you in the right direction to the program's set up and to install it on your computer, but the difference lies within where the setup file actually opens from.

If you click on Save, you can specify where you want the setup file to go (for example, to your My Documents folder, on your desktop, etc). From there, you can put it on a disk, just in case you ever need to reinstall it or want to put it on another computer.

On the other hand, by choosing Run, the set up process starts once the setup file is downloaded to your Temporary Internet Files. Then when you empty your temp files, the setup download disappears. This option is great if you're not a download packrat, but either way, you should be clearing out your temp files on a regular basis to prevent your computer from getting clogged up with downloads.

Which one do I use, you ask? Well, I usually download the file to my desktop and then either delete it after the install, save it to my Downloads folder or send it to a disk. But the choice is yours!