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Microsoft Is Officially Out of Ideas
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| Windows Vista has sold 140 million copies, but it's such a resource hog with
| unreliable hardware drivers that users keep asking Redmond to extend the
| support for Windows XP. Many corporations refuse to upgrade their server
| farms and cubicle-bound desktops at all. It's not often that 140 million
| copies of a software package that costs hundreds of dollars can be called a
| disappointment, but this one seems to fit that bill.
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http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2008/05/29/microsoft-is-officially-out-of-ideas.aspx
Microsoft trashes Windows XP
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| Unfortunately for Microsoft, the version of XP they're attacking - with the
| missing features and incomplete security model - is a bit of a straw man. By
| focusing exclusively on the bare OS (up until and including the Service Pack
| 3 bits), they effectively strip XP of the robust ecosystem of supporting
| tools and workarounds that has evolved during its 5 year reign as King of the
| Desktop. As a result, the product they cite in their white paper bares little
| resemblance to the OS that enterprises deploy today.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2008/05/windows_xp.html
Microsoft badmouths XP to make Vista look good?
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| Is this a case of sacrificing one offspring over another? It sure seems that
| way, with Microsoft pointing out XP’s flaws in order to make Vista look light
| years better. However, some believe these XP “flaws” are actually inaccurate.
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http://vista.blorge.com/2008/05/27/microsoft-badmouths-xp-to-make-vista-look-good/
Even XP is becoming somewhat of a mess now (see below).
Recent:
Symantec Blames Microsoft for XP SP3 Registry Corruption
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| Symantec Thursday said it was Microsoft's code that crippled some PCs after
| upgrades to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) emptied Device Manager, deleted
| network connections, and packed the Registry with thousands of bogus entries.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,146228-pg,1/article.html
Windows XP SP3 still officially AWOL, but can be found on BitTorrent,
Microsoft servers
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| On Tuesday, in a low-key announcement on a support newsgroup, Microsoft said
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| it would delay the release of XP SP3 because of data corruption issues
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| between the updated operating system and its retail point-of-sale software.
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=intellectual_property_and_drm&articleId=9082098&taxonomyId=144&intsrc=kc_top
XP change corrupts data, hamstrings SP3 rollout
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| A Microsoft spokeswoman on Wednesday acknowledged that the same problems
| affected Dynamics RMS users running XP SP3.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=operating_systems&articleId=9081438&taxonomyId=89&intsrc=kc_top
XP SP3 update corrupts Windows registry, users claim
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| Symantec Corp. today denied that its consumer security software, including
| Norton Internet Security and Norton 360, is to blame for wreaking havoc on
| some users' PCs after they upgraded to Windows XP Service Pack 3.
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9087199&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_top
Readers Respond to Microsoft XP SP3 Difficulties
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| eWEEK readers report the problems they encountered installing Windows XP SP3
| on HP desktops with AMD processors.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Readers-Respond-to-Microsoft-XP-SP3-Difficulties/
Users Report More Trouble With Windows XP SP3
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| On the We Got Served U.K.-based Windows user forum, Windows XP users running
| Windows Home Server, Microsoft's home storage and local networking server,
| report that SP3 is cutting off their access to the server from their PCs. The
| remote desktop access feature would ask users to add their home server's Web
| site address in order to access it even after they already had, users
| reported.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146059/users_report_more_trouble_with_windows_xp_sp3.html
Windows XP SP3: Beware the service pack!
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| The first thing that happened after installing Vista SP1 is that it broke my
| HP printer driver. That wasn't too bad, I fixed that quite easily by
| uninstalling the driver and doing a clean reinstallation. However, the fact
| that a service pack upgrade caused an instability in a previously working
| standard software installation is a concern.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18109/1023/
Windows XP SP3 Sows Havoc, Users Complain
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| Within hours of its release, Microsoft's Service Pack 3 for Windows XP began
| drawing hundreds of complaints from users who claim the update is wreaking
| havoc on their PCs.
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| The problems with XP SP3, according to posters on Microsoft's Windows XP
| message board, range from spontaneous reboots to outright system crashes
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207600950
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