Win XP SP2 "turns Firewire 800 into Firewire 100"

[Waccoon]

I wish they would distinguish between "can cause" and "will cause" problems.  I find it hard to believe that SP2 will always result in a slowdown under all conditions with all hardware.

I could write a book on all the things Apple screwed up over the years, such as their FAT driver which regularly destroyed PC floppies for no reason as soon as you popped them in the drive.    I find it hard to believe that it's possible to royaly screw up FAT!

Nobody in the Mac world ever made an issue out of that, 'cause no Mac user would be caught dead trying to use Windoze files, right?

Don't think for a second that OS4 will be free of bugs.  It'll probably blow up a hell of a lot more than my Win2K system.

[Waccoon]

To tie this all together, I have little doubt that LaCie's firewire needed a BIOS upgrade to work as full speed with WinXP. Whose fault is that? MS? LaCie? Firewire chipset makers? Don't care.

"Don't care" is definately how the customers see things -- as well as Windoze bashers.  My dad's system was plagued by the BSOD almost constantly until he downgraded his nVidia drivers.  Is that Microsoft's fault?  Well, they'll get the blame since their name is what shows up every time you turn on your computer.

Nice story, BTW.  I've heard an awful lot of similar things from all angles.  That's especially true since I'm a script programmer, and it disgusts me how people abuse these languages and then {bleep} when their code doesn't work with the new versions.  (Some exceptions are PHP and HTML.  Those "languages" have too many stupid rules that all get deprecated and rewritten far too often).