Reply #23: well....

[sendero]

... in the environment my wife works in, they do have problems. And backing out a patch is a big pain in the ass.

In my home, I have 6 machines that I maintain, 2 for me, 1 for wifey, and each of the kids has one.

I've never had a virus infection, probably because I sit behind a hardware firewall, my wife and I know better than to mess with unknown stuff and the kids have been trained also.

But 2 weeks ago - after listening to my wife talk about how her whole division would be down for days cleaning this mess, I decided to do my first Windows Update on my XP machine.

Let it suffice to say that I regretted it. The machine was unstable after I installed SP1 (after running flawlessly for a year) for a period of time though it seems to have settled down lately - I did nothing so I don't know why :)

I forgot, what was I talking about :) Oh yeah, MS software is basically written by a bunch of yoyos, and Windows is a triumph of hardball anti-competitive tactics and marketing, not technology. :)