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XP Service Pack Does the Impossible
Peyna writes "This article over at C|net discusses the upcoming Microsoft Windows XP service pack, which will contain the normal bug fixes, but more importantly, will make XP more modular, allowing you to override their default products. I assume this means Internet Explorer and possibly some other apps as well."
I picture bill gates as the left leg of the giant cat robot thingy.
Windows is actually modular enough to allow people to add their own apps. I'm amazed!
The next thing Microsoft will tell me is that the sky is blue.
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I'll bet they're holding lotteries in the Federal Pen right now to see who gets to be Bill Gate's boyfriend.
Kinda useful, then, the way he rocks back and forth.
Not to mention that it's build 2600 :)
On a serious note, I wonder why they did'nt do this a long time ago (read windows 95, or first anti-trust lawsuit) it seems that it would have saved them a great deal of headaches.
I don't think either happens. There was a funny bit in the story as told by AP:
"In a demonstration of its redesign for The Associated Press, Microsoft deleted all its Internet Explorer icons from one of the company's laptop computers, which preventing the Web browser from starting, then restored the icons later."
WOW! Either the MS guys are much better at BS than I thought, or the AP guys reporting in this tech issue are clueless. Possibly Both.
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So, who was that?
Dell?
When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me.
When you come out with trite little lines like that, you just make an ass out of you.
i'm reading a lot of posts about how the new patch cripples pirated keys
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i'm wondering how this affects the different flavors of XP?
as everyone knows that Professional is not supposed to be subject to the key bullshit whereas the home version is
personally i'm using a pirated copy of XP pro and while it would be trivial for me to get a legal copy for $5 thanks to a collegiate cocksucking arrangement with M$ that one of my ex-colleges had, i'd rather not since that would mean re-installing and the fact that M$ might see a penny of my money (which is unacceptable)
in fact the last legal copy of windows i think i purchased was of '98, and that wasn't by choice
fuck M$, if they cripple my desk i'll just have another *nix desktop with a 98 SE partition for gaming, maybe eventually they will learn to stop treating their customers like criminals (although they seem to have taken a lesson from US law enforcement on that one, since you are presumed guilty until proven innocent in most cases these days)
hopefully the DoJ will give them a vasectomy and people won't have to worry about selling their souls to
Offer me a stripped down OS that presents an API subset limited to DirectX, OGL and enough of the WinAPI to let me install and start a game, at a reasonable price ($30) without any idiotic licensing or activation crap, and I'll buy it.
You just described the XBox.
Can I uninstall Pinball in WinXP? I was going through my Win2k machine deleting junk the other day, and looked at my logs:
"Pinball.exe has been restored to maintain system stability"
Me: ehh.....
As ever, The Register have a good article on this. Has a bit more detail on how the modularisation will work
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Everyone is screaming for an OS from microsoft that isn't so compounded with all the software that microsoft includes...They should take the final release version of Win95c and change the gui to mimic windows XP and then release that and all the support with it...If people don't want all the goodies of winXP then they should go back to 95/98
"XP Service Pack Does the Impossible"
Makes a Microsoft OS Secure and reliable???
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