Nearly three years have passed since Microsoft Corp. released the last full version of Windows, the Redmond company’s most important and profitable product. But when Bill Gates takes the stage tomorrow morning at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, he won’t be launching a new generation of the flagship operating system. He’ll be looking to stir up some new interest in the existing one.
Microsoft Notebook: Gates preps to pitch ‘XP Reloaded’?
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What about Windows Server 2003 ?
Translation:
“Whatever you do, Don’t switch to LINUX” stay hooked on this crap until Longhorn get’s here…
I’m sure microsoft will get the job done.
Ok, here is a question.
You get 5 years and support from MS from the date of the releaase of a product. Does this this constitute 5 years from the release of reloaded or does it carry 5 years starting on 2001 (original XP release).
Service pack 2 for XP is just a nightmare.
Isn’t Office the “most profitable” Microsoft product?
Isn’t Office the “most profitable” Microsoft product?
Agree. I would say that Office is the most important product for MS when considering business customers.
For home users, the OS is probably the most important: it’s easier to have the same OS at home and at work, and you are able to play the latest games (if you can afford the hardware :-)).
Service pack 2 for XP is just a nightmare.
Unreal…
Cause I must be the luckiest person on the planet when it comes to MS Service Packs. So far I have deployed Xp/SP2 to about 100+ PC’s at my various client sites with a wide variety of hardware. Not ONE have I had an issue.
I know exactly the types who make these sort of comments at forums across the web. Your Windows installation has become a garbled mess of spyware, viruses, many installed/uninstalled programs, attempts to correct it with Norton and other utilites, plus old drivers and/or whatever is cheapest hardware probably slapped together, etc.
I don’t understand how so many are quick to get their shiney new cd’s of their latest Linux release, and take the time to backup/wipe/install. But with MS products, just download the 250mb update and install it expecting a miraculous new computer to appear that is faster and more stable than the one you had an hour ago.
For anything more than a well kept up and clean XP system that has been taking care of, a 250mb update is CRYING to be slipstreamed into a XP CD and done properly. It takes on average 30-45 mintues to do the SP install from executable (much longer from Windows Update), I can do a wipe/reinstall (WITH apps and data) in about only 3 times that. And the difference THEN will be noticeable.
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“So far I have deployed Xp/SP2 to about 100+ PC’s at my various client sites with a wide variety of hardware. Not ONE have I had an issue”
Lucky you. The first time I connected my machine to the internet was to install SP1 (no non-factory software installed). It buggered up the machine. I reinstalled XP, then tried to get SP1 to work again. It completely buggered up my machine. No spyware, a reformatted hard drive…
People probably expect it to *just* work since they’re paying MS a lot of money, and expect it to be easy to use.
If a windows machine has spyware on it, surely that’s partly the fault of a system that didn’t turn on the firewall by default?
Good for you, in the office here on the other hand we’ve been banned from getting SP2 since it buggers our Firewall and antivirus software. Messing with a good Firewall in order to get an inferior one was not considered sensible, particually without working antivirus (thanks to SP2).