Survey Shows Admins Avoiding SP2 492
bonch writes "Tom's Hardware Guide is running an article about Windows XP Service Pack 2 and its limited acceptance by IT administrators. AssetMetrix is cited in the article as reporting that fewer than 24% of over 136,000 Windows XP PCs in 251 North American corporations even had SP2 installed. THG goes on to describe the reasons given by admins and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of installing SP2."
no comment (Score:5, Funny)
Whoa..first post? (Score:3, Funny)
I guess we just have to wait... (Score:5, Funny)
Nothing But Pity (Score:1, Funny)
There must be a constant and relentless amount of rationalizing with the usual "things are getting better" "all software has problems, not just MS" and all the other MS mantras.
Nothing but pity.
SP2 is useless (Score:2, Funny)
SP2 breaks network connectivity by limiting the number of connections you can make in a given amount of time.
SP2 creates a bunch of annoying and useless popups and warning messages, with no real extra security (compare vulnerabilities found before and after SP2 on sites like Secunia).
The only thing SP2 does that's any good is fix up a bit of XP's so-called "firewall".
I don't blame these admins and I wouldn't be installing SP2 either.
Re:Duped article... (Score:3, Funny)
SP2 runs fine on my PowerBook :) (Score:5, Funny)
I hardly ever use it, though... except to run Windows Update when a new batch of patches come out.
WI-FI woes (Score:5, Funny)
The bug mentioned in the article, where Windows sets up an ad hoc network on a preferred SSID it can't find, is lethal in a conference network. One fuckwitted XP box stealing the SSID for its ad hoc network can disconnect hundreds of delegates. Any time that you're nearer the XP box than the access point (s.t. the XP box has more signal), your net access is toast, whether or not you're running windows.
I've been at conferences where there were hourly PA-broadcasts begging XP users to turn off their ad-hoc networks. If you have XP SP1 on-line at a conference, then you should expect to have your laptop pounded into fragments by angry geeks. They will be justified.
Re:because you're a fucking dickhead, thats why (Score:2, Funny)
Re:They have good reasons to avoid SP2 (Score:5, Funny)
Now only if an IE update would install Firefox.
Re:They have good reasons to avoid SP2 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Security moanings (Score:3, Funny)
Some administrators whine and moan whenever they have to do work.
I know I'm avoiding installing it. (Score:2, Funny)
I know I'm avoiding installing SP2. After all, I have no idea what it would do if I installed it on any of my Linux or Mac OS X boxes here (nevermind my single lonely OS/2 machine)!
I mean, it could actually cause me to waste hard drive space on those machines, and I need that space for pr0n!
Yaz.
Re:admins of what? (Score:2, Funny)
therefore, "Survey shows EVERYBODY Avoiding SP2"
Re:Applications (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Simple... (Score:3, Funny)
It's always easier to design something well from the start than to try and polish a turd.
cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/update.cvs? (Score:3, Funny)
If you've got a system plugged in to the public internet and you aren't using something similar to the subject line to update
I'm a bit more forgiving for desktop use - I can type 'yast' on this machine and begin changing things. One day soon, when I take the time to make vmware run on FreeBSD 5.3 I will again experience holy homogenous happiness and life will be perfect.
I have heard of this SP2 of which they speak, but I have no fear, because I am far away from the blasted lands and their filthy start button virus infested machines
Climb, brothers, climb! Go higher and higher, until no flabby, graphical interface only OS with an incontinent TCP/IP stack can follow. Dwell in the land of headless awareness and be at peace.
Namaste.
Re:Whoa..first post? (Score:4, Funny)