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Microsoft Releases Changelist for Upcoming XP SP2
kylef writes "As we know from independent sources, Microsoft is busy readying Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. They have published on their website a changelist document (link goes to TechNet download page) detailing the nature of the security-related fixes and updates. The document is targeted towards XP admins and covers some interesting things such as the new Internet Explorer Pop-up Manager and various security policy changes. Some other juicy tidbits from the document: Internet Connection Firewall will be enabled by default, and there will be new support for something called "Execution Protection" which allows developers to make use of the NX (no execute) page guard flag on Intel's Itanium and newer AMD processors. An interesting read."
Publishing a .DOC on the internet? Is that ironic, or just pathetic?
Microsoft web site. Minimum requirements: not just a browser, but an entire office suite, and only the latest version will do.
Antiword is your friend.
I was on the MS ICS/ICF team. I can guarantee that ALL of it was developed solely by Microsoft, from the ground up.
You paranoid, greedy, dirty hippies should get a life. Firewalls and NATs have been around long before Linux, GNU, etc.
The difference is it's not WordPad doing it.
.... who freaking cares?? Sure, some handle it a bit more 'gracefully' but they still can't do the job you want them to do.
so?
It's WordPad dying a painful implosive death
oh yes, it was horrible wasn't it, "I can't read this huge text document with a crappy free reader, the world is coming to an end"
and WinXP recognizing that and forcefully terminating the program.
And M$, and myself, look at it like this. The program couldn't handle the data, an error msg is displayed and log generated. Does it really make much difference after that? If it were anything more than a text reader, maybe, but it's not. WordPad was not designed to read a document like this and it doesn't and an error msg is produced (albiet not from wordpad itself, but tell me, how many other OS's does wordpad run on?)
For me, I have two basic choices: Notepad or WordPad.
well, that's your choice isn't it? you could install open office or maybe even M$'s own free doc reader.
Look, my whole point was that some programs can't handle certain data. As long as some type of notification is given and it doesn't bring the entire system down
you're all figments of my deranged imagination
Jeez! I was being trollish with this last post. It should have been modded down to 0, off-topic, not up to 5, funny. F'ing mods!
Put identity in the browser.