full-disclosure - Give XP SP2 a chance

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From: abaker at gmail.com (ASB)
Subject: Give XP SP2 a chance

Amen.

-ASB

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:06:49 -0400, Charles Earl <earlcw@...rship.ca> wrote:
> What is the problem with this service pack? Vendor applications suck, all of
> them, they are a collection of bugs that limp along ill and falling down
> constantly. If applications were horses we'd have shot them long ago.
> 
> Every time the PC community takes a step forwards, the dead weight of this
> application garbage keeps sinking us. I remember when the desktop started
> switching from win 98 to NT. Oh my god what a whine and snivel that was,
> every person complained that NT was crap because the applications were
> failing. Why did they fail because they were BUGGY. Those same applications
> crashed 98 all the time. But hey, that was ok, it was easy to push the reset
> and watch the computer to reboot versus NT shutting down the bad
> application.
> 
> I installed XP service pack 2, sure the firewall was there did it bitch sure
> it did but I left it up. Told it to allow the applications that use the net
> to work. I've had no problems, sure I expect I will, but I'm willing to
> point the finger where it belongs. Sloppy programming. Sure XP has sloppy
> spots and yes Microsoft is finally fixing a few of them. But so does every
> application out there. So let's stop ripping up every attempt by Microsoft
> to fix their mistakes. And lets start ripping up these vendor's who are so
> unwilling to fix their own mistakes.
> 
> I'm tired of every new version of applications being more feature ridden and
> buggier than the last.
>