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."

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Re:Wow.

[HeghmoH]

For one, they've apparently made a lot of changes to IE that will make it less of a pain in the ass to use. Some major changes to popup windows in general - they're making it much harder to trick users with popups.

Why don't they just block popups, like everybody else does? I'm not usually one to go for conspiracy theories, but as time goes on, the only explanation that makes sense for why MS doesn't provide popup blocking is that they're in bed with advertisers. Or maybe it's just a case of "we're a monopoly, we don't give a shit"? But seriously, every user out there would like popup blocking, so why don't they add it? Or did they put it in when I wasn't looking?