Re: 25 Million SP2 Rejects?

From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:12:28 -0400

There have only been about 250 million installations of Windows XP. Are you
saying that every single one of them have been upgraded to SP2?

Get real, get smart - get it right, or get out! 

-- 
Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
"Scott" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:413c01c49e90$35be7510$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Spot on!  It was in a local rag, stated 250 million
> installations and 10% were bugged!  My question has been
> answered thanks, was just checking and my update is fine.
> Scott G
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Would it kill you to cite the source?
>>
>>In the early days of SP2, some consulting company took
>>MS's own list of apps that may behave differently and
>>counted the machines they found them on and concluded
>>that 10% of machines had an "opportunity for an issue".
>>The press played the "operator game" with this and
> within
>>a day it had been turned into: 10% of machines fail.
>>
>>Does your source have some credible evidence or is it
>>just more typical reporting?
>>
>>.
>>

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