SP2 dreove me to open source

[Guest]

Thanks to Microsoft's WindowsXP SP2, I have finally made the move to open
source applications. I've wanted to make the move for some time but some
laziness on my part has delayed me. Thanks, Billy, for pushing out the SP2
and specifically the security center because that horrid piece of programming
(I call SP2 the new WinME) finally made me so angry and frustrated with you
and your company that I built up a Linux box at home and will soon be
migrating all of my personal equipment over to the Penguin. If I am browsing
and come across some content that will only work in your non-W3c standards
compliant browser, I refuse to view it. DId you notice that FireFox 1.0 was
downloaded over a million times the first DAY it was available? Hallelujiah!


I am the systems administrator at a television station and so am used to
dealing with new technology. I have never had as many problems with a single
piece of software (and let me tell you, video-editing, TV production, and
graphics software can be extremely touchy and hard to work with) as I have
with SP2. It has bolluxed up so many systems at my station, rendering some
applications totally unusable, that I have removed it from every machine I
have. I've talked to the administration and we are looking into moving away
from all MS products and following the growing trend of dismantling our
Windows infrastructure.

I truly hope that the recent trend in computing to move away from the
monopolistic domination of MS is but the first scratchings of the proverbial
writing on the wall that will soon say that MS is on its way out. Maybe it
won't come soon, certainly not soon enough for any thinking and rational IT
person, but I think it is coming and on that day I will rejoice.

Thanks, again, Billy. SP2 did it's job well enough for me.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

If SP-2 "bolluxed up so many systems at my station" what did they have in
common?
Was all the software and hardware compatible with SP-2 as verified by the
manufacturer?

 

[Beemer Biker]

Thanks to Microsoft's WindowsXP SP2, I have finally made the move to open
source applications. I've wanted to make the move for some time but some
laziness on my part has delayed me. Thanks, Billy, for pushing out the SP2
and specifically the security center because that horrid piece of

programming

Yep, I had probably the same problem, all the stuff I had never paid for
quit working and needed to be activated and the serial numbers were on a
list of banned ones in SP2.

(I call SP2 the new WinME) finally made me so angry and frustrated with you
and your company that I built up a Linux box at home and will soon be
migrating all of my personal equipment over to the Penguin. If I am browsing
and come across some content that will only work in your non-W3c standards
compliant browser, I refuse to view it. DId you notice that FireFox 1.0 was
downloaded over a million times the first DAY it was available? Hallelujiah!

yep, i also see they released some security updates because people actually
started using it for the first time.

I am the systems administrator at a television station and so am used to
dealing with new technology. I have never had as many problems with a single
piece of software (and let me tell you, video-editing, TV production, and
graphics software can be extremely touchy and hard to work with) as I have
with SP2. It has bolluxed up so many systems at my station, rendering some
applications totally unusable, that I have removed it from every machine

I

yep, for sure some of the codecs that I had no longer worked and I had to
retrieve licensing for stuff I wasnt license for, real bummer. Even my kids
complained that some of the movies they downloaded quit working. Reminded
me of the time one of my kids used a ball point pen to write his name on all
his metallica cd's. What he did in 30 seconds accomplished what my wife and
I had been after him to do for years.

 

[Richard Urban]

Looks like someone didn't do his homework and research before installing
SP2!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Thanks to Microsoft's WindowsXP SP2, I have finally made the move to
open source applications. I've wanted to make the move for some
time but some laziness on my part has delayed me. Thanks, Billy,
for pushing out the SP2 and specifically the security center because
that horrid piece of programming (I call SP2 the new WinME) finally
made me so angry and frustrated with you and your company that I
built up a Linux box at home and will soon be migrating all of my
personal equipment over to the Penguin. If I am browsing
and come across some content that will only work in your non-W3c
standards compliant browser, I refuse to view it. Did you notice
that FireFox 1.0 was downloaded over a million times the first DAY it
was available?

Thanks, again, Billy. SP2 did it's job well enough for me.

Looks like someone didn't do his homework and research before
installing SP2!

What amazes me is that these people "move to Linux" - yet they were unable
to configure and maintain a Windows box.
I'm not saying Windows is necessarily "easier", but that Linux is more RTFM
than Windows is required to be.

 

[Richard Urban]

There you go. If they can't maintain Windows they don't have a chance in
hell of working with Linux! Every single thing that they WERE able to learn
with Windows will NOT be applicable to Linux (-:

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Robert Moir]

Thanks to Microsoft's WindowsXP SP2, I have finally made the move to
open source applications. I've wanted to make the move for some time
but some laziness on my part has delayed me. Thanks, Billy, for
pushing out the SP2 and specifically the security center because that
horrid piece of programming (I call SP2 the new WinME) finally made
me so angry and frustrated with you and your company that I built up
a Linux box at home and will soon be migrating all of my personal
equipment over to the Penguin.

Wow. Thats much easier than just turning off the security centre you dislike
so much!

If I am browsing and come across some
content that will only work in your non-W3c standards compliant
browser, I refuse to view it.

You do realise that would mean you were punishing yourself, not Microsoft,
right?

DId you notice that FireFox 1.0 was
downloaded over a million times the first DAY it was available?
Hallelujiah!

Yes. Great browser isn't it. I've been telling people to use it for some
time now. Have you got all the security patches for it?

I am the systems administrator at a television station and so am used
to dealing with new technology. I have never had as many problems
with a single piece of software (and let me tell you, video-editing,
TV production, and graphics software can be extremely touchy and
hard to work with) as I have with SP2. It has bolluxed up so many
systems at my station, rendering some applications totally unusable,
that I have removed it from every machine I have. I've talked to the
administration and we are looking into moving away from all MS
products and following the growing trend of dismantling our Windows
infrastructure.

So what are you planning to move to when you find stuff doesn't work in
Linux as anticipated and you're too lazy to test things properly before
undertaking major upgrades? I suggest OS X. It really is a nice OS.


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