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Microsoft To Provide IE Patches for Windows XP Only
Fortunato_NC writes "Microsoft has decided that future IE updates, including those related to security, will only be available to customers using Windows XP. This news.com article has the complete scoop. A choice quote: 'Microsoft may be turning the lemons of its browser's security reputation into the lemonade of a powerful upgrade selling point.' This should provide a huge boost to Mozilla and other alternative browser backers."
What do they mean ?
No update for Win2000 which is still used by my 50000-employees company ?
Or do they mean they will not update IE/Solaris and IE/OS[9X] ???
Trolling using another account since 2005.
We've been rollong our own patches for 3 years now. And while we're deploying XP Pro on all new notebooks we have a ton of older test equipment where the vendor has us locked into older revs of the WinOS (everything but ME, XP home, and PreNT4). It's a huge PITA when M$ tries a stunt like this and we are left holding the bag after our vendors (all smaller than us) give up and say they can't do anything about it. We employ roughly 60K people worldwide and have double that many PCs (at least). I'm sure other mega corps like us will be able to pressure M$ into supporting at least 2K for quite some time to come. With that said, half our data center and most all of our engineering data services are running on some form of *nix. -nB
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When you agreed to the EULA, you agreed not to sue M$.
Odd that this is one of their biggest FUD weapons against OSS, "There's no one to sue.". Well, there's no one to sue with M$ software either.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Actually, in a software company, it's not atypical at all to have Server installations used as desktops. We have a number of developers who develop/test software on top of databases, IIS, etc. Yes, some of this stuff is available for 2KPro and/or XP, but the only way to be sure it works 100% is to have access to the full server version. So it's not atypical for a developer to run Server as desktop. I myself use 2003 Server as my desktop because I wanted to be able to evaluate different server products (I'm a sys admin). I also wanted to get familiar with 2003 Server before it rolled out to our production systems--when you use it every day, you find all the nooks and crannies you'd overlook in terms of settings and whatnot. Finally, I prefer the remote access configuration of Server over XP. It's not unusual for me to use both remote sessions as well as the console, running different apps as different users, etc. Sometimes RunAs just isn't powerful enough for this.
How Microsoft is reconciling that with THIS:
"Microsoft remains committed to providing security updates to our customers for all supported Windows versions."
I suspect it means that the popup blocker, new download protector, IE plug in controls, window relocation blocker, e-mail screening, and e-mail bug blocker will not be made available for anything but XP-SP2. Which kinda sucks, but is mostly OK. If only it were possible to view the "Downloaded Program Files" folder without Windows Explorer filtering the contents; possibly the plug-in manager would improve that, but I doubt it. I've found the best blocker for these stupid add-ins and adware pieces is creating an empty NTFS folder where it wants to go... and then setting all permissions to "Everyone -- Deny".
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