I work XP Home/Pro tech support (I love RedHat too, so don't pidgeon-hole me as a borg drone), and the news of this service pack is good news to me. Hopefully they will fix a lot of issues we come across frequently at work, at the same time I hope that they don't create more problems.
The OS, surprisingly is not bad. I use redhat for Apache/Perl/mySQL, but I use XP for the obvious reasons - they pay me to know it and it is a decent desktop enviroment.
Many of the problems we tackle every day fall under usually two categories: Hardware, Third-Party software.
Once in a while you'll get a really weired one that needs to be researched further, and it has to be bumped up to the next level. What happens to it there? Who knows? Probably a format-clean install.
Over the past few months we've seen some of the more common problems dwindle away. Hopefully with this pack's release more issues will disappear.
Most of all, I hope with the new feature to remove components people start ripping out Windows Media Player so they won't ask us to troubleshoot it. =]
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I work XP Home/Pro tech support (I love RedHat too, so don't pidgeon-hole me as a borg drone), and the news of this service pack is good news to me. Hopefully they will fix a lot of issues we come across frequently at work, at the same time I hope that they don't create more problems.
The OS, surprisingly is not bad. I use redhat for Apache/Perl/mySQL, but I use XP for the obvious reasons - they pay me to know it and it is a decent desktop enviroment.
Many of the problems we tackle every day fall under usually two categories: Hardware, Third-Party software.
Once in a while you'll get a really weired one that needs to be researched further, and it has to be bumped up to the next level. What happens to it there? Who knows? Probably a format-clean install.
Over the past few months we've seen some of the more common problems dwindle away. Hopefully with this pack's release more issues will disappear.
Most of all, I hope with the new feature to remove components people start ripping out Windows Media Player so they won't ask us to troubleshoot it. =]