Re: Error handling is hard - let's not do it!
@eldakka
It might have been better than Windows 9x, but that isn't saying much. It had no firewall as standard, neither did previous versions, but this was coming into the time when computers were being attached to the Internet. A Cheverolet Matiz is better than a Trabbant, but it is still no Camaro ZL1.
It still had filesharing turned on by default on Internet connections (C$ available), for example.
It was only with SP2 that all of the most serious (known) security problems had been properly addressed.
Microsoft had misread the market, or missed the Internet boat, to a certain extent and their lax security came back to bite them.
If that was not the case, why did Bill Gates stop all development other Windows projects to concentrate on fixing the security and quality problems of XP?
It was derided and corporations didn't want to upgrade to it, until SP2 came along - which is where the saying came from, that you shouldn't buy a Microsoft product until the second service pack had been released.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
