XP SP2 news stories and sensationalism

[D-Bone]

I swear, if I read one more news story that tries to tell everyone what a problem SP2 is, I'm going to explode. Lately all the news stories have been about all these IT people saying "OMG?!?! SP2?!?! What are we gonna do? It's gonna break everything!!!"

Here's the problems I have with news outlets and the whiners they report on.

1. SP2 has been in development for a very long time and RC's of SP2 have been available for testing for a LONG time. It's like these people just woke up and heard about SP2 for the very first time last week.

2. It's being pushed out through automatic update. Well shit, oh my, large corporations don't know what to do with themselves... Ok, you run a large corporate network and you let automatic updates just roll out everything without ever testing anything? You don't use your own update server? Well, you are asking for trouble then. Too bad for you. Learn how to run a network properly.

3. Microsoft is finally making a step in the right direction in regards to security concerns. Ever since XP was released, everyone complained about how unsecure and problematic it was. Now that MS has addressed that and made an excellent service pack, all people can do is complain. Amazing. These people need to be shot.

So you take these perceived problems and idiots in the media and you get headlines such as "SP2 destroys world economy" or something.

Anyway, I'm sure this will start a nice flame war :)

[Kyraath]

Holy crap, dbone feels pretty strongly about this. Well I completely agree with him. All of these whiners should really be examining their own network best practice policy, oh wait, they don't have one. We have been doing a ton of testing with the final version now and so far none of the apps we were worried about have been a major headache. Sure we have to open a few ports, but with the new group policy options (holy frickin hell there are a ton of new policies) it's totally easy to set up the client firewalls. This SP is turning out to be excellent. I hope they keep up the good work.

[Dante]

OH MY GOD!!! MY NETWORK JUST BROKE!!!! Oh wait... my network cable came unplugged.

I'll blame SP2 anyway. DAMN THAT SP2!!!!!!!!!

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[D-Bone]

No comment.

Come on dude, speak up. We observe the right to free speech here. You are welcome to disagree... Let us hear your thoughts on the subject.

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Ok so are you saying that IBM is a whiner. There are several big players that are holding off on SP2 because of KNOWN compatability issues with their apps. My biggest beef is that MS saw fit to force it on EVERYONE through AU. I think it should be treated as any other SP and not shoved on the corporate users. I have been in contact with some of the vendors and when I ask them if their app is gonna break they are like what is this SP2 you speak of. That was a major banking software vendor. I can't in good conscience test with a beta product. not the way it constantly changes. I don't have the time to test and retest and test again. Not with my current work load.