10 Jan
2012
10 Jan
'12
3:15 p.m.
My complaint was actually about pre-SP3 XP, something
which up until a
year or two ago I still had to use for work on a semi-regular basis. The
settings could be changed, of course, but the default was to auto-install
and force a restart, often while I was on a bathroom break and still
connected to a few servers over SSH. Every time I came upon a new
machine, I got bitten by it again.
Default of all cars is to have the motor turned off and gear disengaged
;o)
I think the default was changed in SP3, but I
wouldn't swear to it. I
still have to use XP a lot because curiously, companies in the tech sector
are slow to approve an update, so yes, the failings of a nearly decade-old
operating system are a real and pressing concern to me now. I think, if
nothing else, it speaks well of XP's overall design relative to its
predecessors that it's still very much preferred by a great many people.
This is not a curiosity. This is sanity! Why will I change something
that just works?