XP Service Pack 2 Breaks FireWire

Diluted writes "FireWire Depot is reporting about a problem with Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. Apparently not liking the competition from 1394b, Microsoft decided to limit S800 devices to a quarter of their speed capability."

Fixed?

[bdipert]

I thought this was fixed in a subsequent patch?

Re:What the...?

[NanoGator]

"Why the hell would Microsoft consider a device connection bus standard to be competition?"

I actually had somebody give me shit a couple of weeks ago denying a statement I made about Slashdot sensationalizing MS news stories.

Re:Patch? Fix?

[mebob]

They may have been driven by those companies, but nobody is really battling for either. Intel happily includes firewire on most of their boards and apple includes USB2 in all their computers now.

Now thing might change a little with wireless USB, bluetooth, etc,.. but a company is always going to back a technology more when they played a role or invested something into its creation.