Do Released Vista Fixes Leave Network Problems In Place?

Early on in the public life of Vista, problems with the IPv6 subsystem were shown, and yet apparently not fixed. Articles detailing the problems of this were more than a few, and the exact symptoms explained, yet the causes not understood.

Now the first fixes are out, and nothing has been publicly acknowledged concerning the troubles, so it waits to be seen if the problems are gone.

It might seem that Microsoft should have just ’stolen’ a good solution from one of the flavors of BSD, as they did with the TCP/IP stack in Windows 95, but apparently not, since no other implementation of version 6 seems to have the same problems.

Also not apparent, is Microsoft not working on the problems which large business depends upon? Again FUD abounds. One source says that repairs on the way will address specific problems, then the Microsoft ad machine denies all.

Since this is exactly what happened in the weeks previous to the updates of yesterday, one must conclude similar tack will be taken with the next series of ‘repairs’.

[tags] IPv6, Microsoft, network problems, network corruption, transfer stoppage, BSD, FUD, psychology of error [/tags]