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Microsoft will upgrade when Intel has their 64 bit chip out.
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Bailey [mailto:baileyp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:56 PM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: OT: WinXp Sp2 - Thumbs up so far
Alex:
There has been no difference in SP2 to me and I leave my charting
workstation 'ON' for 5-1/2 days straight every week.
If your friend uses Amd64 (or maybe Amd period), WinXP SP2 will have quite a
few bugs. Amd might have decided to skip Operating Systems in the Design
process. Red Hat might be a smoother alternative.
Seriously though, anyone considering buying an Amd64 should consider the
incompatibility issue with WinXP, for what that's worth. Of course they will
probably upgrade this WinXP package in a year or two, but its hard reversing
designs in hardware or software (not impossible though).
Phil
->So, so far, it's a big thumbs up for me. We'll see how long it takes the
->crackers to find the holes in the security. :-)
-They already have. SP2 didn't fix all the holes, just some of them.
-The holes that were fixed don't equal the number of holes that are
-known.
-A friend of mine installed SP2 and it caused several things to fail.
-He had to disable the "firewall" that SP2 turns on by default. He
-already has a software firewall, but apparently SP2 isn't smart
-enough to recognize the fact.
--Alex
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