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   Ken Blake to justin@becauseihatenospam.org   
   Re: Two Hours for SP1?   
   23 Feb 11 17:42:09   
   
   XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, alt.windows7.general, comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: kblake@kb.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:00:31 -0500, Justin   
    wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   >  Ken Blake  wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:35:48 -0500, Justin   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > I downloaded the Microsoft ISO image since I have more than one machine   
   > > > to run it on; so those two hours don't include time I spend downloading   
   > > > the massive SP.   
   > > > Two god damn hours to install SP1?  Good God, Microsoft is honestly   
   > > > trying to piss off their customers.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > I installed SP1 on three computers here. It took 30m minutes, 40   
   > > minutes, and one hour.   
   > >   
   > > The one hour installation was on my very much underpowered netbook   
   > > with only 1GB of RAM.   
   > >   
   > > If it took you two hours, it sounds like something is very much wrong   
   > > with your machine.   
   >   
   > Yeah, its running Windows 7.   
      
      
   So, it took two hours on your machine, and one fourth of that time on   
   mine, we were both running Windows 7, and you blame the difference on   
   your running Windows 7? How astute of you!   
      
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