Windows XP users up in arms after SP3 download
by Stevie Smith - May 9 2008, 11:18
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While not the Steve in the other comment, this Steve wanted to offer a few cents worth of commentary. Users are making the normal gripes and complaints about the release, and likewise about the IE7 issue and SP3. The problem is that not all sites have the same post count, there are a few forums where there are pages and pages of rants. So I think up in arms, is a good title for the article IMO.Honestly, the image is what sells it. Steve
Service pack 3 sucks. it crashed my computer twice and just got installed on my lap top which took tow try's. I will not down load it on my last desk top until microsoft clean up there act and I would advise other to do the same.
I have installed SP3 onto a power system 3 yrs old(6 HDD's running onboard Promise RAID (0) and onboard Intel Raid(1) C: drive and a removeable caddy.
A notebook 2 years old entry level.
No problems with either, MUST comment bothe systems were SR2 with all the MS updates and patches, both have AVG licenced antivirus, Office 2003, Photoshop 5.2, MYOB 17 accounting.
There is NO way I will move to VISTA tried problems (1 12 mths ago and then again 3 mths ago) VISTA interface sucks and as for navigation sucks. Office 2007 same interface (ribbon ) and navigation sucks.
We and my clients will be staying on XP PRO and Office 2003 PRO.
There are truths everywhere giving some latitude to make our own better choice. In every infrastructures both good and bad are inate to an imperfect world. That being said, my experiences with both SP3 and Vista Ultimate have been strange indeed. My slowesty, oldliest and most problem prone Intel 945 @ 2.4 Ghtz and 4 Gb of 333 ate XPSP3 up quickly and without any issue. My 2 Dual CPU AMD 64x2 4600 on A8NSLI boards with 4 Gb of 400 DDR2, providing normally flawless graphics to DAW computing, have yet to complete the installation before I punch the reset and watch the restore operation. Both the Windows Update and the ISO Image process have been extremely suckful. Then I have a couple of oc'd Q9300s running 1333 DDR3 on the P35T-D6Q mobo and the Vista experience has been like Ipod nano.These machines score 5.9 out of the 5 point performence standards so I figured that its a simple issue of $6500 and a clean install to be one of the chosen. Vista runs very well except for the scanner dilema and the distaste for MIDI. But it gives you neat solutions for problems which never used to be problems on Shwingg-XP.
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SteveMay 9th, 2008 - 15:09:24
Sorry to be so negative, but really, what a moronic report. Are users really 'up in arms'? I've been in the business since Microsoft started offering service packs, and every one of them has had these kinds of complaints (usually quite a bit worse). Seems to me that this SP is going quite a bit more smoothly than SP2 did (just go back and do a search for SP2 news reports at the time). However, 'SP3 release going smoothly, relatively few complaints' just doesn't have the zingy headline does it?
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