Tech | July 10, 2008 | 13 comments

Microsoft Crashes Xp so you'll upgrade!

source: http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_No_IE7_for_Windows_2000/1117464807

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Microsoft announces that it will discontinue support for Windows Xp. Up until now Windows Xp has been one of the most stable operating systems Microsoft has ever put out.

Soon after the announcement they release Windows Xp service pack 3. Xp operating systems all over the world suddenly collapse and cause massive IT headaches. The solution? Remove the new Service pack.

Next problem windows releases critical MS update KB951748. Suddenly Xp operating systems all over the world experience crashes, some cannot access the internet with their web browsers and more.

It may be just another conspiracy theory but I find it hard to believe that the software giant can release these code packages and have such wide spread mayhem just happen out of the blue. I'm sure they run tests on the code before they release it to the public at large. They have to know what's going to happen when users install it on their systems.

I have a large family with 10 computers in the house. We experienced identical problems on all systems running XP. 6 computers experience the same problem in one house. Multiply that nationally, then internationally.

If it's a coincidence then someone at Microsoft should be fired. If it's intentional then some one at Microsoft should be prosecuted. It's strange that suddenly when a new OS is on the way, that the most stable OS the giant has produced in years suddenly suffers critical failures and massive melt downs, only after having installed new code packages from the company.

Just a p.s. follow up note. 4 of our computers run Vista. Vista is virtually identical to Xp except for one critical feature..... It won't run on older hardware.....and you have to purchase it for up to $300 US.... Coincidence?
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13 comments // Microsoft Crashes Xp so you'll upgrade!

  • dave_sr25
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      dave_sr25  

    • man that sucks i was get them same auto update for Xp that was blocking my net the min i uninstall it ma net works fine i dont like microsoft

    • 3 years ago
  • AVtime
  • Psychedelic
  • tomofnorthcal
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      tomofnorthcal  

    • My XP SP2 has been doing just fine for the last 2 years. Vista sucks, I have used it and I hate it. My next PC will be a Mac or Linux or something that can still use XP.

    • 3 years ago
  • knightlynight200
  • Psychedelic
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      Psychedelic  

    • That's exactly the point. So many people are having these problems only after updating the OS. I think people were so disappointed with Vista and its lack of difference from XP that the executives have come up with a dastardly plot to force people to change.

    • 3 years ago
  • orionblastar
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      orionblastar  

    • I had a friend with XP and it kept giving him the blue screen of death when he got on the Internet. For some reason it didn't blue screen for me, but whenever he visited a certain web site it BSOD on him but he wouldn't tell me what web site did that. If he stayed off the Internet his system did not crash. I think that some web sites are built for Vista and IE 7 only, and if he used something else it can cause a crash. I use Firefox myself when testing his system, he used IE 6.0 instead. I told him to use Firefox instead, but he refused.

      My Vista system got so slow and kept freezing that I myself went back to XP which works better. But from time to time it loses the data of each program loaded in memory after 24 hours and forces me to reboot. Possible Microsoft has sabotaged XP as only when I apply new updates to SP2 or SP3 it does that, but if I don't apply the updates it does not do that.

    • 3 years ago
  • necrotized
  • kewal91
  • damnneargenius
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      damnneargenius  

    • Imagine how easily Microsoft could basically shut down the civilized world if all Windows operating systems crashed at once. Well, maybe not, but it's a lot of power and influence nonetheless.

    • 3 years ago
  • Psychedelic
  • balderdashandpiffle
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      balderdashandpiffle  

    • Definitely fishy, especially because of the flak Vista has received and the number of people and companies downgrading to XP.

      However, saying that I installed SP3 on my laptop and everything was and is fine. Perhaps there is code that targets illegal or otherwise dodgy copies of XP.

    • 3 years ago
  • Psychedelic
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