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Interview of the Windows XP SP2 Dev Team

Posted by Hemos on from the one-step-forward? dept.

Masa writes "SuperSite for Windows has a nice interview called "Windows XP Service Pack 2: The Inside Story". The interview gives a good insight, what kind of a project the Service Pack 2 was, how it got started and how huge effort it actually was." The ITMJ Product Guide is part of OSTG, as is Slashdot.

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  1. Re:Todd Wanke... by ProudClod · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hey,

    To the guy who modded OT - RTFA please. The head of the SP2 project is called Todd Wanke. Deedpoll is the method by which one can legally change their name (in the UK at least).

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    Gamers Europe - Gaming News. Reviews.
  2. Re:This quote sums it up by MicroBerto · · Score: 3, Informative
    Microsoft is living by the "Tyranny of the 'or'", as described in the book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

    We can have security OR compatability. We can have low prices OR product quality... etc..

    Bullshit. You can have both. The visionary companies described in this book DO get both, because they live by what the book describes "Genius of the 'AND'". You CAN have it both ways - it just takes hard work, dediction, and thinking outside of the box.

    Microsofts lamentations will eventually get them beat. As good as they think they are, there is always someone better - with the visionary attitudes described in this book - that will eventually beat them in the long run.

    I'm confident that as a community, OSS will be able to embrace the Genius of the AND in this situation, and get security along with usability. It just takes time.

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    Berto
  3. Re:no-execute feature by x-caiver · · Score: 3, Informative
    No Operation? (NOP, 0x90)
    Yes, you got your 'funny' points, congrats ;)

    "No Execute" is also called "Data Execution Prevention" now. Basically it is a way to mark pages in memory as locations for data only, and not some places that executable code can be put. If you try to execute code from one of these pages -boom-.

    Here is one of the microsoft.com pages on DEP: DEP info