Microsoft To Provide IE Patches for Windows XP Only

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Microsoft To Provide IE Patches for Windows XP Only

Posted by michael on Thursday September 23, 2004 @02:24AM from the lucy-pulls-football-away-again-from-windows-users dept.

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."

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Gmail invites by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-23 02:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

email jhunterthompson@gmail.com
link by minus_273 · 2004-09-23 02:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

a de uglyfiled link here

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1. Re:link by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-23 02:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Please provide a link for more info on what is claimed in your sig.
Mod points??? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-23 02:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I meta-moderate more than 5 times a day. Where are my mod-points??? Is it a /code bug?
Re:Servers? by gnu-generation-one · 2004-09-23 02:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"The article mentions nothing about servers... Does this mean that Windows 2000 Server users will have to upgrade to Windows Server 2003?"

Don't servers typically use wget and lynx for browsers? You can have a graphical browser open on the workstation you're connecting from, and copy URLs into the SSH window.
What about a patch.... by thomasdelbert · 2004-09-23 02:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...to change this awful colour scheme? Are they going to provide that? If they do I'll dump my Linux box and put XP on it!

- Thomas;

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Re: MicroSoft Update by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-23 03:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I took a huge dump last night. The pile was sticking out of the water. It had all the good stuff: corn, peanuts, green pepper chunks, and horrid stench. I have to repaint the walls because the stank won't leave.
SP2 safe now? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-23 04:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Is the general consensus that it's safe for individual users to download and install SP2 now? As a side note, I like to consider myself a somewhat knowledgeable person when it comes to computers; I run Firefox, dabble with Linux occasionally but primarily stick with XP, have an up-to-date firewall, Ad-aware, Spybot, SpywareBlaster, and turn off all reporting/feedback features of software that I have installed.
Re:Good by rainman_bc · 2004-09-23 04:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

But then you have the Dell machines that come with POS McAfee pre-installed. I just helped out a family member with a new computer and set them up wtih FF, and they can't update McAfee because it uses a goddamn ActiveX control.

Luckily I moved them to AVG anyway. McAfee is just bloatware crap anyway.
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