Comments on: Software Development 101: Thou Shalt Test Thy Software

By: Christopher Spera

Christopher Spera — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:33:32 +0000

Confidence is not an app included in any Windows installation at this time…

By: mikeya

mikeya — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:01:02 +0000

I installed SP3 without a problem on my XP Bootcamp partition of my brand new MacBook Pro … but now am looking at installing Vista for the DX10 stuff (most of my Windows stuff on the Mac is for gaming). None of this has installed confidence …

By: Christopher Spera

Christopher Spera — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:30:55 +0000

yeah… nice, huh? I think MS needs to get on the ball again, and get past this new set of problems. They need to start a QA initiative, much like their security initiative from a few years ago and insure that everything that is supposed to work, works.

By: TrvlngDrew

TrvlngDrew — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:05:17 +0000

DAMN!! My brand new Toshiba downloaded SP3 and wouldn’t you know it, Symantec.. #%%#$@#% Thought I had turned off automatic update

Good thing I’ve been transitioning to my new MacBook.. Have all of my data and operating platform that works..

By: Christopher Spera

Christopher Spera — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:57:06 +0000

Remember, I have a Mac, too; but I bought mine to be a Windows box . The hardware is simply awesome! That aside, too many consumers don’t know how to take care of their own PC’s (let alone their home networks). Microsoft can’t be this irresposible when it comes to communicating, testing and working with their Vendor-Partners.

If this is a case of MS denying access to critical software, then Symantec should either aggressively pursue cementing a written agreement with MS that gets them the access they need or litigation for MS’ part in this fiasco. MS HAS to allow partners like Symantec early access to OS updates and SP’s. Otherwise, life is going to get really nasty for everyone – consumers who either rip Symantec products off their computers, Microsoft products off their computers, or both…

By: Wayne Schulz

Wayne Schulz — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:38:40 +0000

Why do you think I’m investing most of my hardware money in a Mac.

By: breley

breley — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:48:59 +0000

Shades of the old QA canard “Cost, schedule, quality…pick two.”

By: basvandesande

basvandesande — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:06:37 +0000

Tuesday night I got notified by Windows XP telling me that I needed to reboot as an update was installed. As it was late I told my system to shutdown and I went to bed. Wednessday night I booted up my system and then my system was crapped up. The system ended in an endless boot sequence ending by a BSOD.

Now I remember that my HP system came preloaded with a trail version of Symantic Antivirus crap which I removed once I started using the system for development purposes (I switched to Grisoft AV).

I think that despite of the deinstallment of the symantec crap, a fragment has been left on my system which caused the registry corruption.

I’m pretty pissed by it. In the meantime I’ll advise other XP users to disable the auto update feature of windows.

I’m afraid I have to reinstall the complete system. A big applaus to both symantec, HP and Microsoft is in place here. Thank you HP for providing me with crappy symantec software. Thank you microsoft for f*ing up my system. Thank you symantec for delivering bloated crapware

By: TrvlngDrew

TrvlngDrew — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:17:18 +0000

Hi Christopher, It bad enough that we as consumers and corporations have revolted enough to reject Vista and try to maintain our viability on XP, but now even that is suspect.. No wonder Apple is doing SO well..