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Give XP SP2 a chance
From: "Charles Earl" <earlcw () starship ca>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:06:49 -0400
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. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
Current thread:
- Give XP SP2 a chance Charles Earl (Aug 12)
- Re: Give XP SP2 a chance ASB (Aug 12)
- Re: Give XP SP2 a chance Stef (Aug 12)
- RE: Give XP SP2 a chance Geo. (Aug 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Give XP SP2 a chance Todd Towles (Aug 12)
- RE: Give XP SP2 a chance Goencz, Otto (Aug 12)
- RE: Give XP SP2 a chance Nick FitzGerald (Aug 13)