From: "Hrvoje Mesing" 


"Geo"  wrote in message
news:420aaa25$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> some were 7 months old too.
>
> Why can't they create one rollup patch for everything after the last
> service
> pack? I mean this is getting ridiculous. Did you know that for W2Ksp4
> there
> are now 66 post SP4 patches? There are now 14 post SP2 patches for XP (the
> secure SP2 version of XP that was going to eliminate sooooo many security
> issues)
>
> Please note, I'm not picking on MS for the number of patches, everything
> that's popular has lots of patches, I am however picking on them for their
> lack of respect for system administrators and how they are almost forcing
> us
> to use windows update instead of a service pack/rollup strategy where we
> can
> easily store the patches for future use after they discontinue supporting
> a
> product.
>
> And before anyone tells me NT4 is obsolete, if it were truly obsolete it
> wouldn't need to be protected by copyright anymore.


-+-

WinXP SP2 was not intended to Patch everything up, more to "add new
(de)functionality".
(de), because of point of view.
Still, as I use Internet Explorer and I don't have any problems with it, I
Do Not understand how it is possible that One (the CO.) Can Not organize a
MOFO code check up.
Then again, the iNet is full of the "Win2K source code" code
comments, which points to too much of ... "American humor".
+ maybe they are shooting on "Longy" and Indigo, so it is best
just to patch
as it pops up, but then again, will Longhorn be so much different from
WinNT - WinXP in Its real code, "under the hood" ? Maybe, I hope
It will be better.
You can easilly create Your own rollups ? You can pick updates from SUS or
d/l it by hand, or manually - should work 'right. Also, I like WinXP much
more everyday.

.. this was just a comment ..

Enjoy.


-+-
M.

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5