Re: XP SP3 Details?
- From: "HEMI-Powered" <none@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:30:26 -0000
Robert Moir added these comments in the current discussion du
jour ...
MS is never responsible for mistakes made by other developers, SO
"student" <guest@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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ms not responsible even when the app is an ms app?
That isn't what "unknown" said at all.
LONG AS the developers are kept well into the loop so that
they're aware of upcoming changes and warned of what the
independent developers must do to be compatible with a major
release of Windows. But, many people, certainly me, have legacy
apps back to 98 or early XP that are no longer available or the
user does not like or cannot afford to upgrade all of their apps
and utilities. THIS is where the real problems come from. They
expect one brand of Windows and were tested for it, but have no
clue how an SP or 2 or a major rewrite like Vista might affect
them, hence they fail either minorly or disastrously. Ditto for
HW drivers and other crucial systems software for legacy HW.
It is this, coupled with not wanting to beta test with my Visa
card, that causes me to delay upgrading to major new releases
until I am confident that the major issues have at least been
identified and I can evaluate the likelihood of a major outtage.
Some say I am a Luddite and overly cautious, but it has saved me
much grief. I waited over a year for SP2 and only had one hiccup,
which turned out to be a failure of the old Roxio 5 optical
burning utility not being compatible. That one took me 6 months
to resolve because I could not identify what was causing it until
a techie, my nephew, asked me the simple question "do you think a
driver may be at fault somewhere?" Sure enough! Deleted the
errant drive and bought Roxio 8, end of problem. So, I will not
go to Vista until my next PC, as I want one with far more memory
and more CPU than even the good system I have today, I want
others to debug Vista for me for a year, and I WILL be OK then.
I'm sorry to have to say this, and it is hardly limited to MS,
but I simply cannot fathom the mad rush so many people have to be
early adopters ANY new SW or O/S. I used to be that way but
discovered that I was spending more time beating my system into
working than I was using it for useful tasks. That happened mid-
1995, and I simply stopped my own mad rush to always have the
latest. Since then, I have been far, far more stable.
So, it is doubtful I will ever go to SP3 because their are
critical updates that will be in it that I declined to install
because I lurked on these support NGs and discovered problems
that I strongly suspected would affect me. That's my decision, f
course, and others enjoy the freedom and the right to upgrade
when - or if- they choose to.
Thanks to listening and have a great day!
--
HP, aka Jerry
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