Continuous reboots plague Windows XP SP3 sufferers

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1. I am truly baffled. Microsoft has how many programmers? They have how much money?

   I kinda feel sorry for them.

   And yet people put up with them. What makes their users so enslaved to their incompentancy? Why are their users so scared to try a mac.

   I am tired of hearing “Oh, our school had macs a long time ago and I didn’t like them”

   Bunch of stupid lemmings.

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2. huh, great one!!

   I need to have one single Windows PC for Office: The UPS Worldship Software ist only available for Windows 🙁 (I´ll swap logistics provider in a couple of weeks, and that POS will go).
   Installed SP3: Continuos reboots, yuck. (I´m restoring the PC to SP2)

   My wife needs a Windows copy as well (The one leading translation memory is Trados – A company owned by Microsoft, therefore offering only a version for Windows:((( )
   She use it through vmware on our iMac 20″, 2.4GhZ without problems. (though slow).
   Installed SP3: Works like a charm.

   Macintosh: It just works ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />))

   Matt

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3. When told of this, Ballmer was heard to say “‘Reboot’ my ass!”

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4. I am truly baffled. Microsoft has how many programmers? They have how much money?

   And they still couldn’t catch something as obvious as a continuous reboot problem. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”raspberry” style=”border:0;” />

   Doesn’t MS test anything before release?? Or is this just the MS “we know it doesn’t work but we’ll ship anyway”?

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5. Heh, at least XP has that fabled fast boot time. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”raspberry” style=”border:0;” />

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6. @ matt

   (The one leading translation memory is Trados – A company owned by Microsoft, therefore offering only a version for Windows:((( )

   With Apple making iTunes, Bonjour, Safari for winblows isn’t this just another sign os a monopolist company using its market share to drive out the competition.

   When will the Law actually stand for something again?

   I hate them!

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7. @deepdish,

   “What makes their users so enslaved to their incompentancy? Why are their users so scared to try a mac.”

   Exactly! I have wondered this for years, too. The analogy I use to point out this insanity to Winblows users is one of a car. If someone buys a Ford and it breaks down every week, will they buy a Ford next time? No, but for some reason logic goes out the window when it comes to their PC.

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8. I downloaded SP3 via Windows Update, for my XP machine. It failed to install. I haven’t bothered to try installing it again.

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9. “Any customer who experiences a problem with Windows XP SP3 installation should contact Microsoft Customer Support Services,'” Albanesius reports.”

   Any takers on how long until their call center is overwhelmed?

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10. Yep. This happened to me. Continuous rebooting. So…
    I removed my Bootcamp partition (15gb) and re-partitioned (9gb). I have installed Windows SP2 back on the system, but MS, in its infinite “wisdom,” removed all security updates. You now have to download SP3 to get everything up to that point. F that! Here’s hoping the latest Avast! catches any bs that gets through Windows’ “defenses.” lol

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11. yes, we get it, Microsoft is crappy. However, to their defense, their OS has to work and be tested on literally hundreds of thousands of combinations of hardware (maybe more) . Apple only has to deal with dozens. This is one of the advantages of creating your own hardware and software.

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12. the microsoft plan for making vista better than XP is proceeding well i see…..

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13. I hate the MS apologists that defend MS by stating “their OS has to work and be tested on literally hundreds of thousands of combinations of hardware.”

    That’s NOT my fault and it should NOT be my problem. If MS can’t guarantee that their SP3 update won’t screw up somebody’s fully working SP2, then they should leave well enough alone. Give me the incremental updates, not one big, sloppy mess to screw up everything.

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14. And this is why thousands of people are petitioning Windows to keep supporting XP?
    That’s it. I’ve lost all patience and empathy.
    Windows users are stupid.
    Stupid stupid stupid.
    The Charter of Rights and Freedoms must be amended. Continued use of Microsoft products IS grounds for discrimination.
    But I guess Windows users should be protected under the same rights as afforded to the developmentally handicapped and the insane.
    *sigh*

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15. So this is their plan to promote Vista, make XP totally unusable. The quip about what happens when you let the sales and marketing guy run the company is getting truer by the day.

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16. I agree with “dd” on that front.
    M$ shot themselves in the foot with that decision a couple of decades ago.
    If I read “CandTsmac” correctly, I don’t agree with your statement:
    Making your own software is not a monopoly as long as long as you give the chance for other companies, programmers to add their own products and see what the users end up deciding as good or poor software and you don’t do everything in your power to mess up their efforts at providing a viable alternative. Apple has for years left the gate open for other software developers to add to the Mac experience with sometimes adding some of the developed software to their OS. Though the same may be said with M$ at times, they just did not get standards going at the beginning and stuck with them. Their latest browser IE7 fares poorly at the “acid test 2”, let alone “acid test 3” where Safari can at least boast 75% on AT3. Even iCab rates 75% on AT3 and the browser developer can’t even come close to having the money and personnel that M$ has.

    Standards do matter and just because M$ does what it bloody well wants with a supremacist attitude does not mean that it is better. Users are fed up with the mess the company has created and the managers of M$ are completely out of tune with the reality of modern day computing.

    What has M$ done well in the past decade?
    What has Ballmer done well in the past decade for M$?

    Please let us know!

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17. It’s an evil plan to make people switch to Vista.

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18. Happy Mother’s Day to all. Get your mom a Mac.

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19. Last week I attempted to install the SP3 on my Parallels XP at least a dozen times. I kept being told that I didn’t have enough space on the drive, so would clean and clear space. Never had enough room. Now I consider myself lucky it failed. Windows users are used to this and just take it for granted that this crap goes on for all computer users.

    Yeah, some applications require Windows, but for everything else, please do what MDN and every Mac users recommends: just Get a Mac!

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20. Shen and Stephen…

    are exactly right. This is just MicroSoft’s way of making sure everyone is ready to move on to Vista.

    Simple as that. I’m so glad I switched. It’s been 4 glorious years and those around me are switching as well. At least my parents won’t suffer the latest Windows problems.

    ~M

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21. This is why OS X should only run on Macs. The PCs have too many hardware combinations to for any one operating system to be reliable.

    Windows is now a cancerous zombie that needs to be constantly fed new code. It is best to shoot it in the head now, before it is too late.

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22. I know why … they developed SP3 on SP2 or Vista. Either way, when you pile shit on shit, all you’ll come up with is a bigger pile of shit.

    > What has M$ done well in the past decade?

    Squander monopoly money in a futile attempt to start other monopolies?

    > What has Ballmer done well in the past decade for M$?

    Two possibilities here, ignoring the obvious simian possibility:
    He’s either on Jobs’ payroll or Stevie has photographs of Steve doing something so horrible that exposure in public of said photos would just break the man. Since Ballmer has enough dough, we can eliminate option one.

    — Service Pack 3 adds several networking and security improvements, and compatibility with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 security credential providers.

    One step forward and two steps back.

    — Meanwhile, Microsoft reported this week that users who install XP SP3 will not be able to downgrade from Internet Explorer 7 to IE6.

    MW: Situation “Normal” – All F*cked Up.

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23. In a world of polarities, everyone has an unalienable birth right to experience the essence of genius or stupidity. Apple and Microsoft have certainly filled the niche as a provider for one of these realities. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />

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24. MS CHOOSE to ‘support and accomodate 3rd-party software’ — INCLUDING developing Mac software — why is it their customer’s fault that they have a difficult time doing so?

    Why is the public’s fault that MS can’t say no to every box maker out there?

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25. Make NO mistake, this WILL be the very last straw for another million Windows users.

    “Enough is enough. Microsoft has driven me mad one time too often. I’m going Mac”.

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