You Know Microsoft Are Dying When... (was Re: Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain)

.... It's not safe to upgrade Microsoft software anymore. 

Vista, yeah we know that story. The enterprise still absolutely 
refuses to allow the monstrosity into their offices.

But Windows XP?! 
Sure, SP3 will make XP better!
.. . . NOT!


In article <p8hVj.1598$255.1221@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Ozmoe" <Ozziemoene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "Chance Furlong" <t-bone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > From Information Week:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showA
rticle.jhtml?articleID=207600950

Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain

The problems with XP SP3 range from spontaneous reboots to 
outright system crashes.

> By Paul McDougall 
> InformationWeek 
> May 8, 2008 11:58 AM 
>
> Within hours of its release, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s Service Pack 3 for

> Windows XP began drawing hundreds of complaints from users who claim the

> update is wreaking havoc on their PCs.
>
> The problems with XP SP3, according to posters on Microsoft's Windows XP

> message board, range from spontaneous reboots to outright system
crashes.


Want more?

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2302371,00.asp

Continuous Reboots Plague Windows XP SP3 Users
By Chloe Albanesius

> What are you doing this weekend? How about watching your PC continually 
> reboot? That's what some aggravated Windows XP users have been doing
Friday 
> after installing the XP service pack 3 (SP3).
>
> The problem appears to primarily affect AMD-based computers, though
there are 
> also some cases in which Intel-based machines will also run into
trouble, 
> Jesper Johansson, a former program manager for security policy at
Microsoft 
> who now runs a Windows-related blog, wrote in a recent post.
>
> 
> Microsoft was scheduled to release the XP SP3 download on April 29, but
a 
> "compatibility issue" delayed it until May 7. Mention of the reboot
problem 
> first popped up on the Microsoft forums on April 23, prompting some to 
> speculate that the poster's problem was due to an outdated version of
SP3, 
> but users who installed the final version soon re****ted the same issue.
> 
> Microsoft was scheduled to release the XP SP3 download on April 29, but
a 
> "compatibility issue" delayed it until May 7. Mention of the reboot
problem 
> first popped up on the Microsoft forums on April 23, prompting some to 
> speculate that the poster's problem was due to an outdated version of
SP3, 
> but users who installed the final version soon re****ted the same issue.
>
> "At this point, I want to clarify that the endless rebooting is not at
all 
> related to SP3 per se," Johansson wrote. "The problem is that with some 
> configurations, SP3 causes the computer to crash during boot, and
Windows XP, 
> by default, is set up to automatically reboot when it crashes. That is
why 
> you end up in the endless rebooting scenario."

OK, so it's not SP3, but it IS SP3. Brilliant.

Apparently what is going on ACTUALLY is that the same old lack of 
ACTUAL 'Plug and Play' on PCs has reared its Gorgonesque head 
again and turned a variety of PCs into stone, or rather into 
useless puke machines. And YES, this is Microsoft's fault, and 
YES, this is XP SP3's fault because Microsoft did not account for 
all the frickin' nasty non-standard (because there is NO 
STANDARD) PC hardware setups. Great.

Geez. You could have bought a Mac.


:-Q*************

-- 
Fortune Magazine 11-29-05: What's your computer setup today?
Frederick Brooks: I happily use a Macintosh. It's not been
equalled for ease of use, and I want my computer to be a tool,
not a challenge.
<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363107/>
[Frederick Brooks is the author of 'The Mythical Man Month'.
He spearheaded the movement to modernize computer software
engineering in 1975.]