Tuesday, January 19, 2016

List of fixes included in Windows XP Service Pack 2

The Microsoft KB article number 811113 - entitled "List of fixes included in Windows XP Service Pack 2" - contains some errors and has a very sloppy structure. We've edited the list and we are sharing this updated document with you. see the bottom of this post for a link to the updated document.

If this list from Microsoft is accurate - how is it possible when even this document contains errors? - then there are 798 total fixes included in Service Pack 2. If we include the duplicate entries, then the list contains 827 entries.

Our work may seem simple and small but it was very time consuming. In order to find duplicates, you have to comb through the entire list. Editing the document is also time consuming. We hope that you enjoy our work. Post a comment if you care to do so.

Just another example of how sloppy Microsoft can be. Remember folks, unlike Microsoft, we don't earn billions of dollars per year. We fixed this document for free. Imagine that! Microsoft even pays people to work for them, yet this document is sloppy and erroneous. Microsoft should have to pay us for our time. If a simple html document is this sloppy, then imagine what the source code of the Operating System looks like. Yikes!

I guess this is how Satya Nadella does things on the Indian subcontinent.
Bill? William? Hello?
Perhaps Mr. Gates could loan us a few million to start a new company.

Following is a list of our edits and corrections:

Entries that have been moved to a new location:
827042 - moved from from the bottom of the list to Networking category.
837009 - moved from Management and administration category to Outlook Express category.
828749 - moved from Base OS category to Security category.
828026 - moved from Base OS category to Multimedia category.

replaced hard-coded quotes with escape codes (quot;) in description fields for the following articles:
326574
831787

29 duplicate entries have been commented out from the list:
322011
329080
329834
330646
331320
332207
810023
810565
810992
811632
812203
813415
814199
816213
816880
819536
821234
821538
823442
824141
824223
824262
826367
828741
830355
830653
831709
836605
840309

duplicate entries have been commented using the standard html4 comment element:
<!-- duplicate entry --
if you wish to see our work in the source code, then use this string to search for the entries

one href has been updated with a new uri:
support.microsoft.com/windowsxpsp2 now links to the Windows XP End of Support page.
www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/end-of-xp-support

Download the updated list:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/gycj2hr6yrepbnd/811113-edited.html


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