The shambles of releasing SP3 and what has followed as a torrent of people crying with issues after issues when they decided to slipstream and do a fresh install of this sorry excuse for a SP3. Microsoft after all promised it would only be released when it was of great quality which we users had come to expect (or words to that affect)

 

This is to you Mr. Microsoft that is apparently still unaware (rolling over laughing) that your sp3 was clearly poorly implemented and and prematurely released as well as your unwillingness to provide a wide availability public fix for the LLTD issue is abysmal. You, instead of releasing the fix into the wild "pussy footing around the issue and making people beg you for the elusive V6 of the LLTD" I doubt your fix is better than mine anyway.

 

So here it is straight from Microsoft into my inbox after I begged and here available to you at a single click download here WindowsXP-KB922120-v6-x86-ENU.zip No passwords and no nonsense... or if by now you don’t trust me go grovel to Microsoft.

 

Microsoft's attitude towards users is despicable and your lack or alacrity (speed) and true dedication of providing a quality well finished product for a company your size is to say the least horrendous. No wonder Bill Gates gave up.... and the prices jeez you charge and the poor quality support performed by someone who barely understands plain English or in fact knows the product is to put it simply a joke!

 

Going Back to XP SP3 Release and the news that things were not going right as posted here and particularly the last paragraph on this post at ZDnet and I quote....

 

 

Clearly the quality bar must be set quite high so any old crap just passes through or it does not at all exist. I vote for the lather.

 

All ranting aside, I feel suspicious that XP SP3 failures and shortcomings, were a genuine blunder with issues introduced I dare to think out loud, not a blunder or a mistake and the fact it is taking Microsoft so long to release fixes and correct the issues or even provide the DVD's Or ISOS's for a clean install of XP SP3 is highly suspicious. I think this is all a smart or rather insulting dumb plot to force people to upgrade to you flagship VISTA (a dozen flavours) and plenty apathetic people who know no better will. Those are no doubt barely out of puberty and think they can Stick vista on a 8 year old x86 machine with 256 MB ram, so many I just have to say no mate you cant... Just stick it out with XP sp2 which is perfectly fine for you and when I ask them why they want to Have vista they say its because its shiny.... That will be the only kind of user your going to fool Microsoft...

 

I can not blame Microsoft for wanting to make money but, please treat us users with more respect we are at this day and age not complete idiots. well not my sort of peeps we are not.

 

Start dishing out the full install CD/ISO's of the full and fixed XP with SP3 media to the masses when its really ready, we can wait! I promise Microsoft one thing. While my last topic on LLTD uncovers your disrespect and cunning towards "us" the user, I will even while I know how to fix the issues, pledge not to install SP3 on any of my machines at home or my other networks I set up with help  and still once in a while manage remotely and that means a few hundred thousand machines. Or even suggest a upgrade to Vista. in fact with rising equipment and licensing costs for your software I'm finding UBUNTU a more appealing solution for this kind of deployment... and with latest news discussions are on the way I promise.

 

Now that your dignified yourself's with finally weeks later to provide official fix why is it so secretive and password protected? why is it that in fact we have to ask for it? Is it so that you know how many emails AKA users suffered for the issue or how many can actually be bothered to go for it or even find it? I suspect knowing office politics so internally next month or so you say that statistics say only a minority suffered from the problem. So no doubt you justify your inaction with more false figures at a meaningless PowerPoint presentation when you could gather the real figures from the thousands of posts all over the globe.

 

Now it would perhaps be a opportune time to remind you that the issues with SP3 don't stop at LLTD of the top of my head there is 8 other issues one of them causes programs not to close properly and leave ghost processes running on task manager, as a side effect locked files resources being used by something that closed already and the solution is to actually close the process yourself manually. This affect IE, and many,many other 3rd party software. These seem to be strangely enough related to Nforce chipsets or AMD based machines for the most part I so far managed to get to the bottom of. But since I do not work for you or want to in fact I will not divulge the fixes to the population for they deserve them coming from you and not me... After all time is money and your the ones making it.

 

Dear Microsoft this is how you will one day like a great Nation will fall from grace "every monkey has its day at the top of the tree" and your branch is getting old and weak now.

 

Take my advice, for free, you stand to loose more while you could gain instead.. RESPECT THE CONSUMERS. TREAT THEM WITH DIGNITY.

 

A loyal and disgruntled customer amongst many other thousands. No matter I wont make a difference to you anyway I just hope I help the communities around to help themselves...

 

Just as a side note I have nothing against progress and newer technologies just the way their rushed by Giants like yourselves that in the end are ill prepared or unwilling to deal with the consequences ASAP, too little too late comes to mind... Its further a joke that there aren't standards agencies that would regulate the quality and ensure its standard's compliant and make this whole dream of having a PC in every household be a painless one, And for god sake stop deluding yourselves with mottos like Vista, the "wow starts now". does it? I’m waiting for that "wow" let me know when it starts I have Vista Ultimate SP1 from a retail as a gift for services rendered as a beta tester and it's shiny but not at all wow. I like my wow to be stable and minimally fault free,let alone crippled by restrictions that you can not and will never control.

 

As a suggestion instead of locking your betas to small groups of 15K to 25K people open it up to people that clearly know what you should be doing to really make and impact and truly bring the wow you so eagerly want to give us... which mean be open minded and open your technologies to be conversant with all other technologies and stop fighting the inevitable. (oh well so much for another idealist and a fool (me).... Do you know what I use as a messenger Pidgin well far from perfect but at least open minded and if only you Microsoft would do the same with panache.

 

Filipe Oliveira.

 

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