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[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 10 03:03 , Fairlight moved his mouse, rebooted for the 
>change to take effect, and then said:" 
>
>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:29:00AM -0400, after drawing runes
>> in goat's blood, Brian K. White cast forth these immortal,
>> mystical words:
>
>...
>
>> > the vacuous and the rigging up an OS that is nothing more
>> > than a show-floor demo that makes the user think they are
>> > actually operating their computer, which of course took off
>> > like wildfire in our something for nothing culture.
>
>> Well -some- people are having second thoughts. You've seen
>> the articles where IBM (amongst others) are recommending
>> -avoiding- WinXP SP2 because while it increases security
>> it breaks compatability in key areas, I trust? They're not
>> garnering much support with this latest service pack.
>
>The IBM memo was not as dire as your comment seems to imply.  
>SP2 was released to manufacturing Friday and not even ready for
>download yet so it's only been official for one business day.

There was an article in InfoWorld about a month ago that was quite dire,
and predicted major incompatibility problems with SP2.

Bill
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