Re: wuts so good about sp2??
From: Dale (Dale_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/12/04
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:36:06 -0800
EXCELLENT post!
"SlowJet" wrote:
> Windows Xp with SP2 is a completely new OS.
> Windows 2000 was based on NT (Not DOS or 9x)
> Applications designed and coded for ancient OS's are only compatible up to a
> point where the external Application code can not function according to the
> new rules of the OS.
>
> Even as of yesterday, a post about he AGP driver, a VIA chipset board. The
> fact of the matter is that MS had to tighten down the AGP driver because
> several Video card makers were going off on their own exploiting subtle
> parts of the standards.
> The new AGP driver 3.5 standard is now in affect.
> Of course the reply to the OP was hey do this and that and then,, the old
> way and it will not work any more.
>
> So that's one example a driver standard change and they have changed several
> times since 98, ME, and even 2000.
>
> Couple that with the fact that all DOS Windows, 9.x, and ME had no security
> in the OS and the file system only had basic permissions which could be
> overridden by any user.
>
> The facts are that many complaining are trying to use XP SP2 as if it were
> still win 98 or me.
> It is not and the majority of even new programs have not even yet been
> written correctly for XP SP2 standards.
>
> This was not a whack for MS to make your life miserable, but rather a long
> over due fix that was making the lives of millions miserable due to errors,
> vulnerabilities, and lake of Internet security from the exponential growth
> in methods to disrupt and crash thousands of computers coming from all over
> the world.
>
> Everything has changed about computers for the SOHO user, corporations and
> government have been running with the newer model for years. Most of the
> SOHO users will not notice a difference because they have newer computers
> with newer applications and use the basic methods to compute (word
> processor, e-mail, browser, chat, file download)
>
> The truth is that older hardware and older applications just are not going
> to keep up much longer even though there are several mechanisums in the
> Windows OS to accommodate the older standards, and the OS can run unsecured
> and unprotected, it is a matter of time before the system will get hosed up
> and need to be re-installed. (Not to mention the spread of problems to
> others.)
>
> But the Windows XP with SP2, a two-way firewall, and AV, and a Adware
> blocker, is once again stable, reliable, and safe from the Internet, and
> secure from hackers and overrides.(Nothing is secure from bad hardware.)
>
> If that's too good for someone then by all means do your own thing but in
> the process it would benefit millions to state the truth of why you are
> doing it, such as ignorance, jealousy, ego, self rightous indignation,
> hatered for MS, etc) rather than saying the SP2 for XP sucks, broke my old
> hardware, crashed my 5 year program, stops the internet, can't write to my 4
> year old disk(that's way to small) that hasn't had more than 2 GB on it
> ever, etc.
>
> The truth is the users just don't know what they are doing and some of them
> should have never arbitrary updated. However, there comes a point in a
> culture when even the best intentions will still be ignored by the masses
> (i.e. the America elections vs. the rest of the world's people) and thus
> someone just has to say WHEN.
>
> WHEN was August 25th, 2004 and it was called Windows Automated Update.
>
> The past is on the shelf, are you staying there with it or moving on down
> the road?
> Choice is good, but there are also bad choices from which we learn life's
> lessons. And there is a time to take out the garbage and buy new clothes.
>
> SJ
> "keisuke" <keisuke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C9BBB12E-4978-44CE-A33B-0DCC3251ABCA@microsoft.com...
> >i have a router, a good virus program, and i don't even use the windows
> > firewall, what is so good about sp2?? there seems to be alot of problems
> > with
> > compatibility with other programs, and i have a startup problem or a
> > freeze
> > every so often. most of my friends don't have sp2, and they don't seem to
> > have any issues... what are the consequences of uninstalling it??
>
>
>
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