Thanks for listing

Quote Originally Posted by Woochifer
Pretty typical of Microsoft for them to roll out a product way before it's ready. The saying "Microsoft, Where Quality is Job 1.1" was not written in a vacuum. MS has a long history of putting out programs that are top heavy with features that will dazzle the tech magazine editors and fill up a box cover, but are slower for everyday functions, more cumbersome to use, filled with ill-conceived logical lapses (e.g. why is it that in Excel, workbooks get added to the left when in English we count numbers to the right?), and not especially stable with the first release. XP was a surprisingly stable product out of the box.

SP1 caused numerous problems on some machines when it first came out with slowdowns and crashes. But, I've read that the main problems with SP2 have more to do with changes in the defaults, such as activating the firewall by default and switching some of the port settings, that are designed to plug the security holes in XP. I guess my question is if these security issues were so serious that they're willing to "break" programs right now, then why didn't they just design a more secure OS in the first place? Personally, I would just wait it out and let others go through the teething pains, and Microsoft to release the patches that fix whatever bugs are in SP2.

Or you could just go by the adege that if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Here's list of the applications, so far, that MS has flagged as having problems with SP2.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842242