Are We Growing To Love Microsoft Now?

[Berlin2]

It took a long time, from Windows 3 to XP.SP2, and the OS project is not finished. True love? Possibly.
I knew someone who used Windows3.1, no, I knew 2 people, and I wasn't one of them. I was into C programming on the Gem interface on an Atari Mega ST, and before that on a Sinclair Spectrum & before that on a ZX81. Programming on an Atari was cool & beautiful in the 80's and a PC in the 80's was definitely not cool & not beautiful.
But think of the programming person-hours from Windows3 to the present moment and think about the clever buggars who are still at it. Programming is like chess, but worse. You can't leave it alone until the problem is solved.
So, I installed SP2 today and the system is tight and happy, I can feel it. Now that's clever, no doubt about it. I can almost see the green lines of code rolling down the screen in Matrix format. No Msoft agents around here, I hope. Better run.

[KingCobra]

While you where entering code on your atari I was entering 3 page basic code in on the Commodore64. :P

I have not yet upgraded to SP2, because I want to hear more about what problems others are finding. So far it all sounds like good news.

[wase4711]

where you you guyz when I was playing PONG??

BTW, KC, you know I am one of the most critical folks of all these early releases of SP2, but I must say in the 3 days of using release 2149, there have been ZERO issues with ALL of my other proggies;
I use NOD 32, Vcom System suite, Office 2003, Music match and windows media player, and on and on, and so far NONE of these proggies have objected to version 2149...

[DoG]

The RC2 candidate of SP2 is a grand improvement on the previous builds. My PC is stable, the firewall does what it's advertised as doing and memory usage is at an all time low, 30 Processes and using 192MB of mem.
Admittedly it's a fresh installation with only a few of my usual apps runing but the OS as a whole is fine. It's only when i start adding AntiVirus and additional firewalls that things get screwy- but that's the respective software designers fault- NOT MS's. MS has done a lot of work to get to this stage it's now upto the company's like Symantec and McAffee to get their software to use as little resources as possible instead of the BloatWare they are currently pumping out.

Give it a go KC- it's pretty damn painless

[wase4711]

good point Dog; especially all that Symantec poopie, has been problematic for the last year or so..I stopped using Sygate, because the windows firewall, along with the hardware firewall in my USR router has made my pc invisible, and all ports are un-recognised..
if you need the NOD retail pkg, Dogg, let me know, It works perfectly with this release..

And, I keep loading more and more apps, and still the OS is trouble free..