Comments for: Microsoft exec blames HP, others for SP3 hiccups

#11. Posted at 02:55 PM on May 12th 2008

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Imperor

Eh... Microsoft = Intel, Intel = Microsoft.
Am I the only one to see this correlation? I mean, the only ones to have problems are AMD-powered computers...
I'd say this one is for the lawyers to decide! Have Microsoft commited yet another crime against its competitor(s)?

#11, How is it Microsoft's fault when HP installs Intel-specific ... : UberGerbil (#12) «

#12, I didn't say that really. That the driver or rel. that in... : Imperor (#14) «

#14, We have no data that shows that AMD machines were excl... : UberGerbil (#15) «

#15, In the article only AMD computers were mentioned ha... : Imperor (#16) «

#16, The article is not a comprehensive survey of all... : UberGerbil (#17) «

#17, After installing SP3 myself my Intel system, ... : Imperor (#23) «

#14, Would you be happy if Jesper Johansson wrote in his bl... : Sargent Duck (#19) «

#21. Posted at 02:54 AM on May 13th 2008

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DrDillyBar

Software fidelity, granularity, acc-ular-ity; never an OEM strong point.

#21, how does HP plan for Microsoft's OS changes on systems that ... : clone (#22) «

#20. Posted at 07:24 PM on May 12th 2008

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Tarx

The media portion of my XP media edition HTPC failed after XP3.
After a quick googling, saw some similar problems but no fix yet. So back to my old but reliable Windows 2000 PC with the AIW until I have time to spend (waste) to debug that further...
My wife mentioned something about the Apple TV... (and it now properly supports 720p)

#18. Posted at 04:33 PM on May 12th 2008

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Krazeee

ASUS A8N-SLI nForce4, Socket 939 A64 X2 4200+ @ 2.64ghz and no issues at all.

I blame the fickleness of computers in general. We have all this knowledge of how to build them and what makes them tick, and yet problems persist seemingly at random. There's always a reason for a glitch, but to assume every issue should have been addressed before going live is just silly.

Unfortunately there will never be enough crackers in the world to go with all the whine out there.

#13. Posted at 03:28 PM on May 12th 2008, Edited at 03:30 PM on May 12th 2008

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ludi

Four family XP machines updated so far, no issues -- one HP Centrino notebook, one Lenovo C2D notebook, one Intel P4 Northwood desktop, one AMD Opteron 180 desktop. The HP was also updated to IE7 immediately after SP3, but even that didn't tempt the gods of incompatibility.

#6. Posted at 01:46 PM on May 12th 2008

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ew	and I'll blame Windows for loading a drive that is for a piece of hardware not installed on the machine

#6, Seriously --how much extra code could it be for the intelppm... : nerdrage (#7) «

#7, Right, but that's the driver's responsibility, not Window... : UberGerbil (#9) «

#6, How exactly is Windows supposed to know that the driver is f... : UberGerbil (#10) «

#8. Posted at 02:44 PM on May 12th 2008

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A_Pickle

Wow. Go HP.

#5. Posted at 01:45 PM on May 12th 2008

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UberGerbil

HP still makes mostly good hardware, but their software people have been letting them down for years. Don't even get me started on the enormous bag of dreck that gets installed with their all-in-one printers.

(I'm sure this was a "We can save money if we just re-use the Intel image -- hey look, it works -- ship it!")

#4. Posted at 01:38 PM on May 12th 2008

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steelforce

Cyril - where exactly did a MSFT exec blame HP? Jesper is not a MSFT employee.

#3. Posted at 01:19 PM on May 12th 2008

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IntelMole

What kind of monkey decided it was a good idea to install intel power management drivers on an AMD system?

#2. Posted at 12:54 PM on May 12th 2008

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Deli

my amd works fine!!!

#1. Posted at 12:40 PM on May 12th 2008

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Voldenuit

Kudos to Jesper Johansson and his team for the fix.

Pity all my machines are intel this gen (my Opty desktop has been retired), so I can't test it out personally. That, and my desktop runs XP x64, so SP3 is not relevant.