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XP Service Pack 2 Breaks FireWire

Posted by Zonk on from the oops dept.

Diluted writes "FireWire Depot is reporting about a problem with Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. Apparently not liking the competition from 1394b, Microsoft decided to limit S800 devices to a quarter of their speed capability."

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  1. What the...? by KILNA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why the hell would Microsoft consider a device connection bus standard to be competition? That statement makes absolutley no sense.

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  2. Huh? by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Apparently not liking the competition from 1394b"

    Since when did Microsoft compete with FireWire? The only real competition to 1394 is USB, and that's an Intel technolog.

    That, and Microsoft has already released a patch.

  3. Why are you complaining now? by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Service Pack 2 has been out for what, 6 months?

    And you just noticed that Firewire was broken?

    Why are some people just starting to complain NOW, months after SP2 has been released?

    For the record, I haven't had any noticable problems with SP2. It works fine for me.

    Some of our developers had problems, but that's because they weren't smart enough to to deal with the integrated firewall. They were complaining when *spyware* was attempting to establish an outside connection.

    Also for the record, I'm not the windows admin.

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