WinXP SP2 Sacrifices Compatibility for Security

goldragon writes "TechRepublic is reporting that "Microsoft is pulling out all the stops to improve security. So much so, in fact, that it will cause many problems because SP2 will de-emphasize backward compatibility with legacy systems and code for the sake of security." One small step forward for Microsoft, one giant leap backwards for mankind?"

Comments

Re:Compatibility Woes?

[Mr. Neutron]

Very few truly need to be disabled.

WinXP by default starts 36 services. I doubt any one user needs more than 10 of those.

http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Article/Article ID/40722/Windows_40722.html

Check the dates-- both articles are old news.

[phillymjs]

The WinXP article is dated June 7. The link points to a Silicon.com article about a security flaw in OS X, and that article is dated May 26.

It was on June 7, the same day, that Apple released a second Security Update that fixed the remaining vulnerabilities.

~Philly

Re:Hmmm

[fzammett]

I agree completely. It's the supid-ass comments posted with the headlines that reveals Slashdot for what it is: Anti-MS Zealots Central.

I don't care if comments like that are posted, but they should be kept off the front page in my opinion. If your trying to be a semi-serious news site, then do it, which means keeping crap like that out of the headlines. If you just want to be a community of Microsft haters, that's fine, but get rid of your grandiose tagline because it doesn't apply.

About the news itself... Geez people, hate Microsoft all you want, there's plenty of good reason. But even they deserve SOME level of fairness applied, and as the parent here posted, they are damned if they do, damned it they don't, in the eyes of this community anyway. That's unfair, and even THEY deserve some degree of fairness.