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Microsoft Releases Changelist for Upcoming XP SP2

Posted by simoniker on from the times-they-be-a-changing dept.

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."

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  1. Quick, call the cops! by ciaran_o_riordan · · Score: 5, Funny

    > detailing the nature of the security-related fixes

    DMCA violation.

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    1. Re:Quick, call the cops! by Channard · · Score: 4, Funny
      BTW, I didn*t find anything in this changelog like the "fixes to known pirate cracks and serial numbers" from SP1. Is it possible that MS gave up ?

      It's there in the ROT13ed addendum that reads 'Spend six weeks locking out cracks, only to have some hax0r still in baby booties crack it in three minutes.' Not the best use of MS's time or money.

  2. Program Error by rehabdoll · · Score: 5, Funny

    "wordpad.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.
    You need to restart the program.

    An error log is being created."

    nice.

  3. *POOOF* by MagerValp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was that the sound of the personal firewall market dying?

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    1. Re:*POOOF* by bmajik · · Score: 4, Funny

      actually, the disk defragmenter is 100% MS code now. The old one was outsourced to Executive Software, a bunch of scientologists. I think we had to do the defragmenter in house to get the scientologist bits out of it for certain governments to approve XP. (or it might have been because the code wasn't fully disclosed to us, or something along those lines).

      In any case, the defragger is no longer outsourced code :)

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  4. I could not resist... by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Executio Protection

    Old man Saddam could use feature that right about now.

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    1. Re:I could not resist... by MullerMn · · Score: 5, Funny

      >Executio Protection

      Old man Saddam could use feature that right about now.

      Why? In case Harry Potter tries to kill him?

  5. Re:I just hope by bobintetley · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...It's still buggering me to download the patch...

    Windows is doing you from behind?

    On reflection, could be accurate after all ;-)

  6. Re:Smart. by Daengbo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are they going to be upgrading to the new 2.6 kernel? I have a new chipset I was hoping would be supported.

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  7. Re:All this work by phalse+phace · · Score: 5, Funny
    Did you RTFA?"

    You must be new here.

  8. Re:MSFW / MSFWE / MSFF - Request by BenjyD · · Score: 5, Funny

    Preferences->Homepage->exclude stories->Microsoft.

    I'm sure an enterprising geek could write a script to do that for them. You could even cron job it to give MS free days/weeks.

  9. Re:I just hope by David+McBride · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Yeah sure! It's still buggering me to download the patch."

    Well, I'm pretty sure that isn't going to work..