Microsoft Botches Deployment of XP SP2
Why didn't Microsoft just seed a torrent (and a checksum to match)? Instead, they're telling folks to wait until it's their turn to download the new service pack via WindowsUpdate.com. Meanwhile, how many systems will fall victim to holes purportedly patched by SP2? BitTorrent could have cut their bandwidth bill in half and made a lot of geeks happy at the same time. That said, I'm already seeing quite a few “unofficial” seeds pop up across the 'Net.
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19 Comments
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April 21st, 2008
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Anonymous
August 9th, 2004
at 12:36pm
The download is now available on demand from:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=049c9dbe-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&displaylang=en
Anonymous
August 9th, 2004
at 12:47pm
See also: http://downhillbattle.org/posts.php?p=181
Anonymous
August 9th, 2004
at 1:04pm
Oh, I don't know. I'm getting 100 kbyte/s from Microsoft's own servers, which is more than I've ever gotten from a BitTorrent download…
Anonymous
August 9th, 2004
at 1:43pm
Let me suggest two reason; microsoft.com is more reliable than the bitTorrent network and as much as geeks won't admit it, the distribution of bitTorrent is quite low.
Anonymous
August 9th, 2004
at 1:51pm
Most corporate firewalls wont' allow traffic over the required BitTorrent ports. Besides BitTorrent is slow.
Anonymous
August 9th, 2004
at 1:55pm
BitTorrent has a long way to go before it's appropriate for anything beyond sh*ts and giggles.
Anonymous
August 9th, 2004
at 2:37pm
I downloaded the SP twice to test speeds:
260 KB/s via the microsoft link, between 600kb/s and 1.2 mb/s via bittorrent (using Shareaza).
Anonymous
August 9th, 2004
at 6:37pm
Here's a good site for the XP SP2 torrent: http://sp2torrent.com
They're trying to show the potential of this technology, which I think is pretty cool.
Sarah
sarahintampa
Anonymous
August 9th, 2004
at 8:36pm
Gee, maybe because Bittorrent doesnt work well thru firewalls, the bandwidth costs to Microsoft are negligible compared to the $50 billion in cash they can barely figure out how to send, and the support issues with setting it up and explaining bittorrent to everyone would dwarf any potential bandwith cost savings?
The download location posted first was ment for network deployment – presumeably for networks already behind firewalls. A bittorrent system might be great for something like WindowsUpdate in the general case, but for this specific instance, its not worth the hassle.
Bittorrent's great and all, and I use it, but its clearly not ready for prime time.
Anonymous
August 9th, 2004
at 8:57pm
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/08/09/2011209.shtml?tid=95&tid=190&tid=17
technostan
August 9th, 2004
at 10:29pm
bittorrent would have been nice (as an alternative) but right now, i'm dl'ing it at 250+KB/s off their servers..so no complaints yet..=p
Anonymous
August 10th, 2004
at 9:38am
Is there any way to prevent hacking with bittorrent? How do you know you're getting the real deal and not some H4X0R bits?
Anonymous
August 10th, 2004
at 12:16pm
Because Microsoft does not own BitTorrent…
Anonymous
August 10th, 2004
at 5:59pm
eekkk!! why is the text at the top SO FREAKIN BIG and when i size it down everything else is teeny-tiny and unreadable ?????!!!!
oh, wait on, if i just shuffle over here and open *gag* IE *retch* … ahh. that's better.
this looks bloody awful in mozilla, mate :(
Anonymous
August 11th, 2004
at 12:59pm
cry baby bitch boy. Make you own OS and quit crying
Anonymous
August 11th, 2004
at 8:42pm
To suggest bitTorrent is ridiculous. It's deployed only on a small percentage of computers and is generally laughed at by any professional network admins.
Randy
http://www.kbcafe.com
thepaul
August 11th, 2004
at 10:08pm
Oh yeah I can see the white paper on this one: “How to download SP 2 via Bit Torrent”. Most people can't handle patching via automatic windows update, much less a torrent.
Anonymous
August 31st, 2004
at 1:48pm
It's 3:45 CST USA right now. SP2 is 'currently not available' through automatic updates due to the 'high level of demand'. The full package for IT has disconnected from their server 10 times in the past few minutes and is downloading at 36 kb/sec – far below our capabilities.
How about a BitTorrent NOW!!!