I have a love-hate relationship with Microsoft. On the one hand I have a well paying job in the field of tech support field that will be a job for life as long as Microsoft keeps putting out crappy software. After growing up in the resturant business I can honestly say that working in an Airconditioned office beats the crap out of sweating over a hot stove all day. On the otherhand you get stuff like this Microsoft To Delay Automatic XP SP2 Updates.

And more than likely there will be: XP service pack 2 makes some fairly significant changes to the default Windows firewall configuration that affects many critical applications. Thus far, at least 50 -- and as many as 200 -- applications have been identified as causing conflicts.

What this article neglects to mention is that a large number of those affected applications are Microsoft's own products. You would think that after all this time Microsoft could at least get their own software products to play nice with each other.