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Ready or Not, Here comes Windows XP SP2
TheViffer writes "Beginning April 12, 2005 Microsoft will remove all temporary blocking of Windows XP SP2 by automatic update and Windows update which it has granted to those organizations that requested it. So unless you run Software Update Service (SUS), chances are you will get a mix of SP1 and SP2 running at the same time. Let's just hope you have these programs that are known to experience a loss of functionality when they run on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer and these programs that seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2 patched, upgraded, or removed. Might be a good time for help desk personal to pencil in a week (or two) of vacation."
Why does Microsoft find it so hard to understand that concept?
You do not ADD software to a service pack. You only fix bugs in the existing software.
why does everyone have a problem with this? if you're running an illegal copy of windows, then you don't legally deserve to have a say in the matter! you knew very well microsoft's software strategy when you installed windows XP (because you must have gotten around activation) and you will just have to deal with it. SP2 is very nice, it patches holes, makes wireless work much better, makes a lot of things more user-friendly... but maybe you enjoy running an unpatched, 4 year old version of windows. if that's the case, why don't you downgrade to windows 2000, which won't lock you out? i mean, you wouldn't pay for that either, right? and if you havent tested the programs yourself under SP2 that you claim it will break, then for the sake of public opinion, don't spout your mouth about it. all of the programs listed that i own had no problem with SP2 on the 4 XP machines under me, and all my friends' computers. and after all... this is for windows update and automatic update... if you do these, then what is the problem? honestly?!
"microsoft, i would like to download individual patches to my illegal copy of your operating system, using up your bandwidth, and your developer time making these patches, but i won't let you install SP2. no way."
You mean the 90+% of the public that doesn't have a sysadmin on staff in their home?
Heh - yeah....and people keep trying to push Linux out to the public....Like they could keep their Linux systems updated any easier...
People commonly use M$ or Micro$oft...
... I always thought this was because the '$' looked similar to the 'S' ... And because Microsoft and MS were registered trademarks....
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It appears that Microsoft is a registered trademark, but MS is not. However, MS-Dos is a registered trademark. Even though other microsoft products are commonly reffered to as MS Excell or MS Word.
I did find one website that states that MS is a trademark of microsoft... but search for "ms" on the microsoft site and the search page will ask if you meant to search for "microsoft".
http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?v
http://www.hitachi-support.com/trademarks/ename_m
http://www.hwcs.com/company/trademarks.asp/
http://www.snmp.com/company/trademarks.html/