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MS Deliberately Dragging It's Feet on Fixes
It's True MS want's to be seen to be quick to fix problems, but some not in the public eye are being deliberately ignored.

One long standing deliberate ongoing problem is the well known "Long Hangs" when moving or deleting large numbers of files in Win 98SE. It's caused by the introduction of IE6.1 which is recomended by MS as an upgrade for 98SE.

(The fix in this case is to replace two IE6.1 DLL's with the right IE5.5 version DLL's)

There are still a lot of users with 98SE because it's stable, faster than XP and more reliable. We've tested up to XP PRO SP2 against Win 98SE, Win 98SE is faster on <1G 32bit processors with 250MB ram, providing you remove the performance limiting code introduced by updates.

MS has consistantly ignored this issue for a long time, so in our view it's deliberate ploy to push XP sales.

We are also seeing some disabling updates / upgrades that remove or disable existing features and only enable MS propriety ones, for example Audio Encoders for Video.

MS is still the biggest time waster in terms of system admin and lost PC man time.

60% of our PC customer support activity is entirely due to MS problems that should not be there.
Posted by: wwwsupport   Posted on: 03/29/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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But MS is quick to install their own spyware  grfdsgfsd | 03/28/06
So much for the MS monopoly  tic swayback | 03/28/06
Third-party patches are not thoroughly tested!  cnfrisch | 03/28/06
Ok  zkiwi | 03/29/06
TWO unofficial patches now!  Tony Agudo | 03/28/06
It's called FIREFOX!  An_Axe_to_Grind | 03/28/06
Let's do a little rewrite here  rick752 | 03/28/06
BAD RESULTS  RON FROM LA | 03/28/06
Well, it is a "last resort"  Tony Agudo | 03/28/06
Second unofficial fix plugs IE hole  Loverock Davidson | 03/28/06
Patch will be too little, too late  Mr. Roboto | 03/28/06
not for me  Loverock Davidson | 03/29/06
Well  zkiwi | 03/29/06
I do (NT)  Loverock Davidson | 03/29/06
Not exactly the advice recommended...  jasonp@... | 03/29/06
LOL You really crack me up  Loverock Davidson | 03/29/06
Amazing...  jasonp@... | 03/29/06
Wah wah wah  Loverock Davidson | 03/29/06
It's called BSD  Boot_Agnostic | 03/29/06
Or else what?  Code Poet | 03/31/06
MS Deliberately Dragging It's Feet on Fixes  wwwsupport | 03/29/06
Are you serious?  shraven | 03/29/06
I think you are right  patrick@... | 03/29/06
40 Mhz AMD Faster - It's all down to code !  wwwsupport | 03/30/06
oh sure just disable active scripting  rogerpay | 03/29/06
reality check...  JonnyZ | 03/29/06
Disabling Active X scripting....  DragonBRockin | 03/29/06
Hell you DON'T need ActiveX Scripting enabled just to read posts  patrick@... | 03/29/06
people use IE to do more than read posts  corticus | 03/29/06
You ARE dying in the water  patrick@... | 03/29/06
Take Firefox and...well no thank you.  DragonBRockin | 03/29/06
Another security flaw in IE? Yawn! Why do people still use it?  patrick@... | 03/29/06
Disabling active scripting  mdh75ab@... | 03/29/06

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