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XP SP2 Adoption Lagging Overseas

Posted by Zonk on from the large-patches-frustrate dept.

Vizquel wrote to mention an eWeek article reporting that Microsoft is frustrated with the lack of Service Pack 2 usage overseas. From the article: "During a keynote at the Security Summit East here, McKee said Microsoft has so far distributed more than 250 million copies of XP SP2 to provide a hardened shell around the operating system but the low upgrade levels remains a disappointment."

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  1. BREAKING NEWS FLAHS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    When asked for comment Steve Ballmer replied:


    "I'm gonna fucking kill Overseas, i've done it before and i'll do it again"



    He then hurtled a chair in the direction of Japan.
  2. Prime factorization by this+great+guy · · Score: 3, Funny
    --
    Please prove this for me:
    Prime factorization is NP-complete.

    I failed. I miserably found an algorithm able to quickly & easily factorize any large number. Damn I am so ashamed that I am gonna destroy all my work, and live as an hermit in one of those distant mountain. How the hell could someone found an intelligent use of such an algorithm ? Pffft.

  3. XP SP2 is malware by cejones · · Score: 3, Funny

    I had a lovely working PC card that read all my digital camera memory cards... Worked like a charm with XP SP1. Installed SP2. Reader stopped working... Wouldn't recognize any memory card. Called SanDisk, the maker of the PC card.. They said they had reports of SP2 breaking the functionality of the card. It was a Microsoft problem. One of the tech guys at SanDisk told me that it is an unwritten rule to avoid all even numbers Microsoft Service Packs. Wish I knew that one before I installed it. The PC Card still doesn't work and so I hope it magically starts working with SP3... So I wouldn't doubt SP2 usage is low... That is what MS gets for breaking the way things work...