Re: [News] [Rival] Windows XP SP3 is a Mess, Microsoft Loses SoftwarePower

Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
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> Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain[/color]

What a surprise.

"Microsoft said the restrictions are designed to prevent system
instabilities."

LOL!

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____/ Homer on Sunday 11 May 2008 21:24 : \____
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> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
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>> Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain[/color]
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> What a surprise.
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> "Microsoft said the restrictions are designed to prevent system
> instabilities."
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> LOL![/color]

It got a little worse later. Mary Jo Foley said something along the lines of
(even in the post title): "Microsoft doesn't pull the updates again... yet."
People complain in her blog, as well as in other places.

Bear in mind that Microsoft's new engineers are already like a year late and
this isn't the first batch of glitches. They just don't have the skilled
Windows engineers anymore. They left. Even the top manager left a couple of
months back.

As Joel Spolky, a former manager of Excel, said last year, Microsoft lowered
its barrier to entry at the recruitment level. They probably just take people
from the street to change some lines of code, close their eyes and pray for
the best when the changes are deployed. It shows. It shows because it's the
same mess with Vista (updates 'kill' PCs every month). People like Joe Wilcox
of Microsoft Watch say they are afraid of system updates.

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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
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> People like Joe Wilcox of Microsoft Watch say they are afraid of
> system updates.[/color]

Not that I've ever trusted Microsoft, but at least I always used to
/assume/ that /updates/ meant exactly that, *up*dates, not *down*grades.
However, just like Joe Wilcox, I no longer trust these supposed updates
any more, to the point that I simply don't deploy /any/ so-called
updates that come from Microsoft now ... at all ... ever.

In fact, as I've said before, I've completely disabled WUS and BITS
(Windows Update Service and Background Intelligent Transfer Service),
which is the only way of ensuring that my two (dual boot) XP systems
don't get b0rked by updates ... including those /stealth/ updates that
simply ignore your automatic updates preferences:

[url]http://slated.org/windows_by_stealth_the_updates_you_dont_want[/url]

The irony is that now many people will refuse to apply updates, some of
which will be necessary to fix Windows' *many* security vulnerabilities.

Some choice, eh? Allow Windows Update to make your system unusable, or
keep a working system that gets hacked into a Botnet.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft Slopware.

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K.
[url]http://slated.org[/url]

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| ~ Cory Doctorow, The Guardian. [url]http://tinyurl.com/22bgx8[/url]
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