An uprising against Microsoft and Dell/IBM/others

[BCinSC]

Load SP2 on your Dell or IBM system and no one will help. Microsoft will claim that the manufacturers are OEM and must provide support. Manufacturers will say to call Microsoft or claim it's third-party software and not their problem. Needless to say, supporting 3500 systems has become a complete nightmare.

 

[iamme]

ugh. good luck with that

:beer: <--you'll need that after work

 

[Mo0o]

My university's tech support basically advised against installing SP2 and just installing your own firewall and antivirus

 

[ndee]

No SP2 in the near future in our company.

 

[amdskip]

Same here at our school. They are saying to not install sp2, too many issues that we've seen already. They do have an image using it on a few machines as an experiement right now and someone said the machines had issues printing.

 

[Bassyhead]

I think all the winxp machines at my college have SP2 on them now.

 

[Aharami]

i have sp2 on my machine at home. i dont find anything exceptional about it. infact, i dont like it. nero doesnt work!!!! :|

oh my next format, im gonna stick with just sp1 and the security updates

 

[dquan97]

What are the problems with SP2?

 

[isekii]

I have xp2 installed and no problems here yet. knock on wood...

 

[Svnla]

My company is testing SP2 for compatibility. We won't install it for at least several months due to the variety of software and hardware in our systems.

 

[dullard]

I've installed in a couple and had friends do the same. Only one problem so far - the USB drivers didn't update and the USB mouse failed. Took a little effort to get into the control panel / system / device manager to delete the USB drivers. After that the new drivers were installed and everything works quite well.

The pop-up blocker is quite nice. I already have Zone Alarm so I haven't tried the firewall. Overall impressions are good for me.

However, I'm still advising against it, since I don't want to be technical support if a problem does arise. I'll give it a couple months until I suggest the non-technically savvy people install it.

 

[CombatChuk]

Originally posted by: isekii
I have xp2 installed and no problems here yet. knock on wood...

I haven't had any problems either.