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XP SP2 Can Slow Down Business Apps
An anonymous reader submits "Mobile PC magazine installed XP SP2 on a bunch of notebooks and benchmarked them, finding that SP2 caused a 9-percent performance reduction in business productivity apps. While a couple of notebooks performed better, the majority took a 3- to 22-percent performance hit." For now, the story is just at the top of the Mobile PC website, but they promise more details in an upcoming issue.
Typical Microsoft:
;)
1:releases patch/fix
2:people download it
3:it breaks things/slows things down
4:microsoft patches the patch
5:go back to 1
yeah, you get the idea
If I post an "article" on my 5 megs of webspace provided to me by my ISP denouncing Windows XP saying that installing SP2 will steal my first born and rape my cats, then "create" some benchmarks to prove my point, then submit the article to slashdot, will it make it on the frontpage?
I'll even conclude in the article that running linux will solve world hunger and even do my laundry.
I found one instance where a fix actually allows you to pirate OTHER software (or at the very least violate otherwise restrictive "one machine at a time" clauses in the EULA).
I installed SP2 and didn't notice any problems at all. Then, I fired up Fireworks which has a little util that sees if other copies using the same license are running on the network (who, me?) and was prompted by Windows telling me that the service had been blocked and did I want to Continue Blocking, Unblock or should it Ask Me Later.
Well, so far, choosing Ask Me Later has enabled (for testing, of course) running multiple copies of single license software when we would not have been able to previously.
Neat! Thanx Bill!
R(k)
This should actually be posted in the politics corner. I gotta admit ./ is doing a lot better job at playing politics then certain US canidates. Seriously, a service pack to perform maintence and add some very usefull features. What is the general response? "SP2 broke my edonkey and made my girlfriend (online) break up with me." OH OH! now its slower with certain progams because they switched some compile flags that they should have enabled years ago!
You can either get your ass kicked by gamers for having a slow machine, or by hackers for having an insecure one.
That sounds like an awesome feature, what else can it do?!
...actually HAS business apps.
Similar problems have been found with XP SP I, the original XP, along with Windows 2000, 98, ME, CE, 95, and 3.1.
Can anyone tell me how to set my sig on Slashdot?
...some business apps like Gator even refuse to run!
Thankyou for displaying your unbelievable lack of technical competency. The rest of us would've uninstalled SP2.
Conor "You're not married,you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never seen Star Trek? Good Lord!" - Patrick Stewart
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Windows is just not ready for the desktop. Maybe in a few years, but at the moment, it's not quite there yet. It's perfectly OK for a serv.... well, not OK exactly, but more or less adequate... well, not adequate either of course, what with all those security problems, but ...
Hang on, remind me again why people use Windows?
Reality is defined by the maddest person in the room
How should he know how a NULL is handled? Isn't there an operating system that's supposed to do that stuff?
Where's that damn garbage collector???
Have you ever coded C or C++ in your life?
But I have nightmares where I write Win32 apps in FoxPro.
I can believe that.
And then between steps 2 and 3, 3 and 4, and 4 and 5.
"did you check parameters here? potential buffer overflow? what if this is NULL?" And it wasn't even important code he was working on.
Clippy can still be dangerous if he goes unchecked.
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