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Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:06 am**

I was wondering about the relation of the subject utils for system and driver updates:

How do they relate to each other? Is one a superset of the other? Or is there some advantage of one over the other and if so what? Or why are there two such utils for the apparently same purpose??? Is one the future replacement of the other?

And speaking about it: I have the phenomenon, that System Update shows one driver (specifically: the Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver v 5.5.2.1003) as not installed while SW installer shows it as installed (which it presumably is, since I did install it). Can one synchronize both?

Michael

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:48 am**

This is what Tim Supples (Lenovo sales) posted on his blog:

Since I’d recently investigated this myself, I wanted to shed a little light on System Update vs Software Installer. As a quick brief, here is what the situation is:

*Software Installer is going away, without a doubt.
*System Update will entirely replace it. Part of the reason for this is SU is written specifically for support with Vista, SWI doesn’t have that capability.
*We have heard lots of feedback on the usability aspect of SU, and we have listened. A lot of those features and aspects of SWI that everyone loves so much will be incorporated into SU. I don’t have a timeline on that, but it will be incorporated into a future version.

Don’t want to derail the topic here, but just wanted to put that out there.

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:47 pm**

OK - thanks - that's a clear statement. I only hope they fix this "what's installed and what's not" hickup - but I guess that should be a minor issue...

Michael

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