Applications Broken After Upgrading to Vista SP1

Saturday February 23, 2008 

Microsoft has posted about a number of applications that are know to either break completely or have reduced functionality after a machine is upgrade to Service Pack 1 for Vista. Most of the applications are security-related in nature and can either be blocked from starting, do not launch at all or can have reduced functionality.

Of those listed, BitDefender AV, Zone Alarm Security Suite, and the New York Times Reader are likely to be the most commonly recognized applications.

To say this is a common thing just among Windows users would just be wrong, though. The current release of Apple’s OS X 10.5.2 points to a number of problems with apps getting borked after the upgrade.

So before you go jumping on Microsoft, please realize that they don’t write the apps that no longer work after applying the upgrade, and perhaps the companies that developed these apps should have confirmed that they worked under SP1 themselves.

But then, it’s Microsoft’s fault that HP didn’t write new drivers for your printer when you upgraded to Vista too, isn’t it? </sarcasm>

Filed Under Apple, Microsoft, Vista

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