Boo Hoo Hoo for Victims of XP SP2

[Red Squirrel]

This is a good thing, actually. Good to see that Ms is concentrated on security. Now if this is too good to be true, their next OS won't have service packs, it will come secure out of the box and be done right the first time. (but I'm dreaming now... )

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Opinion: Quite a few applications will break under the new security-focused service pack. Many shouldn't have been written that way, and developers have had plenty of warning that things would change.

If you've ever wondered why major software releases such as new operating systems take so long, one of the biggest contributing factors is backward compatibility. Microsoft is especially sensitive to this, and especially with its largest customers. It works very hard not to break old applications.

But with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), expected to be finalized in the next month, the standard has changed somewhat. The big point about XP SP2 is security, and toward that end, application compatibility must suffer. Some ISVs and other developers are mad. Others not only aren't mad, they see it as a good sign.

Russ Cooper, senior scientist at TruSecure and moderator of the respected NTBugTraq Security mailing list, goes so far as to say, "I hope it breaks more things than it's already broken."

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[sintekk]

Who gives a crap if a few (most likely badly programmed) programs aren't going to work? It's for a better cause

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[jryan]

When a system changes, what do you do? You release a new version. Honestly, think of it like this. Do you still use WordPerfect 2 on your system? No, because it's incompatible. They relelase updates and new versions for a reason. Sometimes I think people just want something to complain about.

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