Some time ago I downloaded MS Update KB925486 on to my XP machine. I had such a problem my computer guy had to uninstall it. I'm now getting prompted to download a bunch of new updates and I'd like to know if anyone has had a problem with any of them (before I download them). Last time I downloaded updates was 1/19/07.

This has been made a moot story since on 13 March Microsoft will be patching One Care with updates to fix the program deleting PST files.

No patches?!?!?!?!? And what about that damn crapy slow network in Windows Vista?!?!?!?

I'm still getting only 1MB per second on gigabit network!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Drivers?

Network Config?

Mine's moving data quite a bit faster than XP ever did. Perhaps MS is not to blame, eh?

I'm having no problems whatsoever on both my laptop and desktop computers. My desktop uses a D-Link DWL-AG530 PCI wireless network adapter (which uses an Atheros AR5212 chipset) and my laptop uses Intel's 3945ABG wireless network adapter.

The current Vista Atheros network driver does NOT fully support dual band wireless network adapters though. You can only connect to 2.4GHz wireless networks, not 5GHz wireless networks.

With all due respect there's this terrific operating system called Windows XP. Virtually all drivers and applications written for it are at a far higher level of maturity. Does the same problem occur in a stable OS (XP)?

Thanks for the reply, but it seems like you're comparing apples to oranges here wireless networking undoubtedly uses a different driver interface than standard wired ethernet. Naturally the protocols that run on top are the same though, like TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and NetBUI.

maybe they just did them early, you know to go with the dst screw up?

I like the ideal, where is the white paper on this.
The way of "Open Source" and letting people have a say.

http://www.zune-converter.org/news

Which is more significant news: 12 patches in a month, or 0 patches in a month?

Definitely the 0.

And that's the funny bit. ;)

They have given up, they know their product sucks why bother they are spending time on Vista. If they came out with VISTA Lite I would buy it, seriously its 80% slower to do anything with Vista then Windows XP PRO SP2. They still have my business, I wont be recommending VISTA to anyone.

i find vista runs MUCH faster than xp sp2 did on more of the systems i use. of course thats business edition, and not ultimate, but 90% of people dont NEED ultimate now do they?

The official XP SP2 is bloatware of the finest order.

Just look at some of the very nicely tweaked XP editions (XP Black, XPMod, etc) they run up to 4 times fasteer than the bloated version of XP. And they run much faster (and better) than Vista. Vista is worthless in its current state.

Don't feed the trolls.

Yes they do.

I know I did. :p

Went cheap and got the OEM version. Installed it, activated it, decided I wanted to try it with RAID, reformatted, reinstalled...

...and had to call to have it reactivated.

*shrug*

Ah well, still better than XP, IMO.

The writing is on the wall. This is possibly where Microsoft is slowly pulling the plug on XP to push Vista. But this is just a surmise on my part.

Actually, rumor has it that next month Microsoft will issue a single enormous patch which supposedly is designed to eliminate all the security issues in XP and VISTA once and for all.

Insiders say that Microsoft has decided to give this patch it's own unique name...Windows 3.1

ha windows 3.1 is smaller than some patches released.

Ahh, one less thing to worry about :)

Its a miracle.

Or a conspiracy. ;)

Perhaps they just want April to be a big month!

I'm bummed. I kinda look forward to patch tuesday. Seriously, I must be a a dork.

are there any unresolved issues? css support? no? ok

I know one of them is the bugs that IE7 introduced into outlook clients last year. Not bad, a 4-5 month turnaround time for fixing problems they introduced.

Want 'em to test those patches, or make more bugs?

Yeah, no joke, quit whining.

Oh why not let em make bugs. It's what they're good at.

Yeah, because IE7 beta for 1.5 years wasn't enough.

The beta did not break outlook, by the way. It was the gold release of IE7 that broke outlook printing.

Unacceptable. Also unacceptable it took so long to fix. But, yeah, we keep on using MS, so blah blah blah.

Seriously, learn to be more constructive, dude. Rather than point out everyone else's problems, why not try to do something positive for a change?

Dude, how long was Firefox 2 in beta? It had bugs too. Please just stop.

Amazingly, none of firefox bugs are show stoppers, Firefox isn't a central piece of an enterprise software package we paid thousands for, and Firefox is free. I tend to not complain about free software and bugs. Microsoft, on the other hand, is a corporation that should stand behind it's products, especially when they break those products themselves. I understand a month delay. 2 is pushing it a tad, but 5 months is unacceptable, and it really demonstrates Microsoft's priorities, and where they devote their resources.

Oh, and please, I can whine all I want, is the best retort YOU can come up with is "Don't whine?"

make bugs? They come naturally to Microsoft.

When did I say you were whining? Don't put words in my mouth.

IE is free. Yeah, yeah... it's tied to an OS you have to pay money for, but the U.S. government has been over that with MS and then some. Don't agree? Complain to them.

MS doesn't have to update IE. Ever. They don't make any money from it and there are plenty of free alternatives out there.

You paid thousands for IE? Last I heard it was free. Come to think of it, it was always free.

so how is this outlook bug really a show stopper? there are other ways to do things.

Don't put words in my mouth.

He's feeding you Alphabits? Can I have some?

Wow. Easy month for admins!

Means next month will be even tougher, rest up.