Curse you Microsoft

Perhaps I am expecting to much. I would think that a large corporation with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank for business use COULD HIRE people to keep their f*cking Update website ... well... up to date.

I am having a HELL of a time installing XP Pro SP1a in my VMWare session. The Express install (web based) fails after going through the entire thing. No useful messages on WHY. So I thought I would do the prudent thing and download the entire service pack to the harddrive and install it that way. Of course the file is corrupt!. I have tried downloading through three different sources/methods, and they all send the same frigging file.

To top it off, the file is 125 Megs, but the web site says its supposed to be 134M. Why? Because all their surrounding text still reflects on the old SP1 (notice no little 'a' at the end). So the information on the web site is wrong. of course, I can BUY the SP1a CD which guarantees me the right file. Of course, can I trust that when they can't even keep the web page up to date. They had enough gumption to add the little 'a' in the text all over... couldn't they do a file size check as well? God forbid.

And to finish off the fun... I can't find a single MD5 checksum to verify if the file is indeeed corrupt, or if something else is wrong. And of course, the original SP1 is nowhere to be found, so I can't even start there and incrementally patch the damn thing.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...... friggin morons.