Lenovo Rethinks and Brings ThinkVantage System Update (TVSU) back

Lenovo has turned 180° and brought ThinkVantage System Update (TVSU) back from the dead. In a blog post on "Inside the Box" called "ThinkVantage System Update Returns", Matt Kohut, Global Lenovo Strategist, announces that System Update has been revived.

He goes on to explain that customer reactions, both blog posts and forum postings, has had such a big impact that it has caused Lenovo to rethink their decision.

Following our announcement, however, we heard from many customers on our blogs and forums. We’ve heard clearly that our individual and business customers alike value TVSU highly. Therefore, we are adjusting course based on your feedback, and have released a new version of TVSU on May 31st. In addition, we have made some backend investments which should indeed improve system performance.

As I posted about this issue a little while back, outlining my reaction to the discontinuation, I'm very happy to see that this gets reversed. TVSU is a valuable tool, and hopefully will continue to be so in the future.

At least it does seem like the downloads go a lot quicker now than before, but I fear that might just be temporary until "everyone" starts using TVSU again. I hope the investments Lenovo has put into the backend of things work out, also in the long run.

Re-reading my previous critical post about this, I realize that I probably was a bit ambiguous with regards to how we use TVSU in my organization though. We only use TVSU on the computers that doesn't get their updates from our own local repository that gets it's updates through the ThinkVantage Update Retriever (TVUR), and this has worked as expected through the period when TVSU wasn't available.