1st, there isn't a "Microsoft Problem" for MS to fix.
2nd, most people are not having problems.
The "problems" generally fall into the following categories:
1. People using the wrong version. Some people are downloading "subset"
versions on one PC, trying to use them on another version. Using the full
270 megabyte version resolves this problem.
2. People with "Prescott" CPUs and the wrong microcode in the motherboard
BIOS. This is not a Microsoft problem, the motherboard makers need to
offer a BIOS with the correct microcode, and the owners need to update the
BIOS.
3. People with firewall issues. These people don't really have a
problem, but they do need to configure their operating systems to support
the software that they are using. It's a matter of a few mouse clicks to
tell Windows that it's "OK" for that particular program to do something
that looks, to the operating system, suspiciously like a security problem.
4. Software programs -- not Windows, but the applications -- that are
genuinely badly written and that need to be re-written. This is the
problem of the software publishers, not Microsoft. Examples include
software that execute code from the data segment (thus violating "data
execution protection" in new processors).
I'm not aware of any problems that anyone is having with SP2 that doesn't
fall into one of these categories. Notice something? No Microsoft
problems.
Why is microsoft pushing so hard? Because, in the past few years, the
"threat environment" and "threat profile" have changed, and running a
computer with an operating system as "naked" as any Microsoft OS prior to
XP with SP2 is simply no longer good practice.
[Some would point out that I limited my comment to "Microsoft Operating
Systems". I would respond that other OS' are not more secure, they are
simply not subject to the same level of attack, precisely because the size
of the installed based makes them generally unattractive targets for
attack.]
why is microsoft pushing so hard for users to install sp2 if there are so
many compatibility issues with some software not working or pcs not
starting after sp2 is installed why doesnt microsoft fix the problems
then push there product?
