On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 07:20:00 +0200, "Meindert Sprang"
wrote:

"Glen "Wiley" Wilson" wrote in
message ...
But SP2 is an improvement over the naked XP system I referenced.

The naked XP, without SP1 was even more crap. What do you think XP stands
for?
Windows eXPerimental.....

:-)
Meindert

Yeah. By naked, I really meant systems without a solid (i.e.
non-Microsoft) firewall and up to date anti-virus package. Which
doesn't make what you say untrue. I have to say though, as Windows
sytems go, my personal experience has been that XP is head and
shoulders above the rest as far as stability goes. I'm almost happy
with it, on that score. It's still a pig with a clunky interface,
though.

As for virus susceptibility, take a linux system, chmod 777
everything, and set the default creation permissions likewise. Just
for fun, have everyone run as root full time. That's your basic
Windows architecture, right? Then spend the rest of your life putting
band-aids on the severed limbs that result. Great fun. And we
haven't even touched Windows networking yet...
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