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"Tim" <Tim@NoSpam.com> wrote in message news:cg1rof$j68$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> IBM Huh? I read the "IBM" Statement too and it was an admission that they
> had not bothered to do any internal testing of their own software for
their
> own internal systems when they had many months in which to do that
testing.
> Further it was an admission that the person that made the statement was a
> pillock. I wouldn't be surprised to find he is now unemployed for slating
> all those he worked with. IBM may not be my favourite company, but I am
> quite sure they have an enormous number of capable people working for them
> and not all of them would agree that it was appropriate to release the
> statement referred to.
>
> Do you have a reference to this next claim? I have such a list and it is
not
> very long at all.
>
> "The list of affected software is very long and includes a lot of
Microsoft
> apps."
> ______
Encarta Enzyklopädie 2002 Microsoft
Age of Empires II: Age of Kings --- Microsoft
Application Center 2000 SP2 --- Microsoft
BizTalk 2004 --- Microsoft
CMS 2001 Microsoft
Combat Flight Simulator 3 1 Microsoft
Excel 2003 Microsoft
Halo Combat Evolved (Arabic and Hebrew) Trial Microsoft
MapPoint Europe 2004 Microsoft
Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 SP1 Microsoft
MS License 3.7 Microsoft
MSBN --- Microsoft
MSN 7.02 Microsoft
MSN 9 QFE1 and 9.1 beta 9 Microsoft
Office 11 Microsoft
Office - Power Point 2002 (German) 2002 Microsoft
Office Access 2002 2002 Microsoft
Office System - Power Point 2003 Microsoft
Office XP Access 10 Microsoft
Office XP Professional Excel 10.0 SP2 --- Microsoft
Office XP SP2 - PowerPoint 11 Microsoft
Office XP Standard 10 Microsoft
Outlook 2000 9 Microsoft
Outlook 2002 10 Microsoft
Outlook 2003 11 Microsoft
Outlook Web Access x Microsoft
Revenge of Arcade v1.0 Microsoft
Server Administrator Tools --- Microsoft
SMS 2.0 SP5 Microsoft
SMS 2.0 SP5 Microsoft
SMS 2003 RC2 Microsoft
SMS 2003 RTM Microsoft
SMS --- Microsoft
SNA Server 4.0 SP4 --- Microsoft
SQL --- Microsoft
SQL 7 Microsoft
SQL 2000a SP3 Microsoft
TaxSaver 1999 Microsoft
Virtual PC 2004 Microsoft
Visual Basic 6 Microsoft
Visual C++ (16-bit) 2 Microsoft
Visual Studio 7 Microsoft
Visual Studio 97 Microsoft
Visual Studio .NET Enterprise 2003 --- Microsoft
Visual Studio 98 6 Microsoft
Windows Sharepoint Services 2 Microsoft
Windows Sharepoint Services --- Microsoft
Word XP Microsoft
Works Suite 2004 2004 Microsoft
WSS 2 Microsoft
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> How many MS Windows Apps are there?
>
> I think the answer to the above equation is very close to ZERO. If you
cross
> reference the above supposed LONG list with the list of software products
> that need firewall configuration (Q842242) , you will find there are
> specific issues and fixes for many of them.
>
> You need to do a little bit more research.
>
> I get seriously pissed off when something good comes along such as SP2 and
> uninformed people regurgitate erroneously and out of context often
> misreported information that has little if any bearing on reality. The
> reality is that daily many many thousands of people are deploying SP2
> without issue. The biggest single source of problems would be systems that
> are already stuffed with virii and worms. Quite frankly I think it is
> downright irresponsible to express an opinion that is flawed as Pete D has
> that will discourage users from installing a much needed service pack
which
> will help protect them *and others* from the scum of software writers.
>
> - Tim
>
>
>
> "Pete D" <no@email.com> wrote in message
> news:MOXUc.710$F7.334@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> >I have installed on two machines, it totally borked one but the other is
> > running fine. If really need to ask yourself if you need SP2, IBM I
> > understand has put out a request too all there customers not to use it.
> > The
> > list of affected software is very long and includes a lot of Microsoft
> > apps.
> >
> >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;884130
> >
> >
>
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