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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.