Re: If you have SP2, check your frequently used app's site for updates.
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Date: 08/17/04
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:55:53 -0700
According to Microsoft, it causes a lot of problems
with MS applications.
Such as 3 different versions of Outlook and Visual
Studio products.
Steve
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:30:54 -0400, "Chad Harris"
<ddram32_nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>SP2 *isn't breaking most apps.* There are some apps that need updates to
>SP2. If you install it and an app isn't working, hit the site and see if it
>has an update to SP2. It's the responsibility of these companies to update
>to service packs, and to pick up the phone, Live Meeting, or their
>Gulfstream and get with MSFT to iron out problems.
>
>These companies haven't been under a rock or on another planet. They know
>about the service pack, and most of their code heads and many of their
>personnel Beta tested SP2. Lots of their sales personnel do because they
>are interested in the software. I'm not talking about the situation where
>businesses have special apps to fill special needs where testing may take
>some time and careful work and several months. I'm talking about run of the
>mill apps 3rd party apps that come in boxes or downloads that cost from
>$29-$150 that someome gets for home or a small business.
>
>
>So they've known SP2 was coming for nearly a year. They have had plenty
>of time to update. The stork didn't just drop SP2 down their chimney on
>August 10, 2004.
>
>Some of them may be stubborn; some may be lazy. Many like crazy Norton
>want to prod people to buy the newest yellow box. They want to call
>anything that's not 2005 obsolete when they have made very minimal changes
>to their bloated, oversized for what it produces application since 2002,
>and a couple months after that yellow box is out, they will want to call it
>obsolete. And it will continue to be somewhat buggy as long as they
>Symantec makes it.
>
>So far I have had one app--Norton that has some pretty minor problems and
>has a patch but has chosen a stupid delivery method for its
>patch--delivering it via the very component that breaks with SP2 instead of
>putting it on it's site with it's other 50,000 byzantine web pages.
>
>Another--had an update, and since I use it every day I decided it might
>help to get the update. The update for SP2 was a batch file that configures
>the Windows Firewall to let its components through.
>
>SP2 is hardly the monumental problem some people seem to be making of it.
>
>
>Chad Harris
>
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>"Dan Smith" <Dansmith@hortmail.com> wrote in message
>news:675Uc.30954$0V3.1577@roc.nntpserver.com...
>*ProteanThread* wrote:
>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842242
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>SP2 will break systems and previous software setups. Now after everyone
>got through the SP1 problems with breaks, MS will do this again, and
>also make it impossible to update ones system without having the system
>hogging SP2.
>
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