Windows patch cripples XP with blue screen, users claim
Angry customers blame MS10-015 for Blue Screen of Death and XP reboot hell
Microsoft has wanted to kill Windows XP (10 year old OS) for a long time. Every time Microsoft announces a kill date for this version of the OS, user and reseller outcry is so great they have to extend the kill date. This is the first OS that Microsoft produced that almost worked as well as they claimed it would. While Windows XP was not perfect, it was better than anything Microsoft had produced before it, and it is better than anything Microsoft produced since then.
In an effort to get people to stop buying and using this product, Microsoft has slipstreamed a bug into the Windows Update service which causes the blue screen of death and continuous rebooting. Microsoft officials were quoted as saying, that if this doesn't kill Windows XP they don't know what will.
If this is the one I think you're referring to, it turned out that it was not the M$ update's fault at all, but was caused by a rootkit already resident on those machines.
ReplyDelete