Slashdot Mirror
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."
They must try to look as active as linux developers are. They release this just because linux 2.6.0 came out!
blah
This is why Linux will never succeed. Instead of simply releasing a helpful service pack to fix the occasional bug, the Open Sores community makes a mockery of you by forcing you to install an entirely new kernel, thus deleting all your files and making your firewall insecure once again.
I'll stick to Windows like everyone else; thanks.
He's not even read the write-up, let alone the article. What a chump!
If you refuse to buy MS Word, then don't whine that Wordpad (which is NOT ment for working with big documents) refuses to open your files. Or you can use OpenOffice.
Nope. The thing about a decent firewall is that you *can* in most cases trust its security. However, the thing about Microsoft products is....
For the holidays, could we please have a MS free week, weekend or at least just a MS free friday? i.e. no articles or press releases about the lastest vaporware, thneed, fud or spin, inlcuding news relays via MS-owned sources like slate, msn, msnbc, msnpr, newseek, etc. It seems every day there is a shameless, uneccesary plug or two. Now that international investors have divested and even their own emloyees have offloaded it is as irrelevant to the stock market as it is for the IT sector.
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
Those are really annoying, and maybe if IE wasn't so insecure, they wouldn't happen.
Then again, isn't Windows the opposite of security?
How about a nice warm cup of Zyklon B??
Are they serious? This is the type of crap that they stick in an important SP!?! A fucking pop-up killer?? how hard could this have been to implement 5 years ago? what about fixing vb-script worms in outlook? _now_ they decide to turn the firewall on by default? why dont the older nt's have firewalls? It seems that NT doesnt stand for New Technology, it doesnt even have the technology of running water. Thats not even the tip of the iceberg that gets bashed into by corporate servers every day. If you are running an important system with Windows, your gonna get a big titanic hole in the side of your PC. Patch _that_ Microsoft!
This comment does not represent the views or opinions of the user.
Will any recent version of a desktop Linux distribution work on a P1 133?
No.
I guess I'll stay in the real world.
Awww him can't play his little computer games. *sniff*
It's not the service pack that's the problem, it's that Athlon XP POS under the hood. Just because businesses use Intel doesn't mean the consumer should demand less quality.