Opinion: Downloadus interruptus

Whoops! That was their own accounting software that got nuked by XP SP3 and Vista SP1! Hello! If Microsoft can’t even test the software it makes in its own factory against these new service packs before releasing them, what chance anything on your PC being compatible? Yikes! What was that noise? Omigod! My microwave oven has exploded! Yoiks! What’s that smell? My toaster burned my toast! All this never happened before we downloaded XP SP3. Where’s that tech support number?

What? The phone has no dial tone? Arrghh! Use the mobile. Out of range? Oh no! The sky is falling you say? It’s gotta be Vista SP1! I told you not to let that thing loose in here! Quick, get the ferret out and let him off his leash! He’ll chase the varmint out of our networks! Whoah! Not yet! Whoah! Don’t let him go until I get up on the desk! Whoah! Those ferrets sure do love trouser legs! Whoaaaaahhhhhhh! Hmnnnnnnarrrgghhhhh! Ouch.

Now do you understand why we pre-test these service packs before we let you have them? Move along people, nothing to see here. Your service pack will be released when we’re good and ready. Hey, where’s that ferret’s lead?