[TenTec] Re: TenTec Digest, Vol 18, Issue 61

[Tommy]

Bill - W4ZV wrote:
>
>          You missed my point which had nothing to do with the reason for
the
> updates.  My point was that I've updated the supposedly bulletproof XP
> 119 times since getting it 1.5 years ago, which has NOT particularly
> concerned me, nor has updating Orion 14 times since receiving it August
21.
> I get the impression some feel Orion should not have required any updates
> (i.e. like hard-wired firmware in older radios).
>
>          Of course I still average about one IE crash per day using XP
(along
> with the optional error message to MS) which shuts down all open IE
windows
> and requires re-opening IE.  Granted, this is better than re-booting the
> entire Win98 OS but it is still far from OS perfection.  To me, the crash
> annoyance factor is directly related to re-boot time:
>

This is similar to statistics, which as you know, can be configured to
produce any results you want! If you have daily IE crashes with WinXP, in
all probability you have a problem with some other software that you have on
your PC. I am not an IT expert, but I have four home made PC's and one
purchased PC, all of which run WinXP Pro. Since installing WinXP Pro on
these machines I have not had a single operating system crash and two of the
PC's had XP installed when XP was first released.

Maybe a more valid comparison than the one you make is to compare the lines
of code for WinXP verses the 9000+ lines of code for the Orion. If you do
that, then maybe 119 XP updates may not sound so bad.

However the more obvious comparison you did not make is that each of the 119
times you updated WinXP, how many times did it create another problem with
the operating system. With the Orion it certainly seems that each time there
is an update, something is certainly fixed, but something else certainly
goes wrong. To me, this says Ten Tec's beta test program is a complete
failure.

Tom - W4BQF