 dpypers wrote:
Like I said... their actions disappointed me. |
I fully agree on that point. They have put into play a very negative
cloud over the whole project. Hopefully, it will get resolved quickly
to the satisfication of the global mozilla community.
On SP2, I want to first be clear that although I'm a proponent of the
"open source"' movement, I am not a MS-basher. I do point out obvious
things that MS does (or does not do) that may affect me; however, I
don't want them to "fix everything". A good portion of my small
business is derived from issues such as spyware in IE. I also do
believe that MS does not (and never has) had security as their primary
initiative, but I also believe that Windows can be relatively safe with
the right approach and measures in place.
With that said, I've always taken the "non guinea pig" approach which
stems from my network training and employment. I refuse to install SP2
and refuse to recommend it to my SOHO and small business clients as
well as home users. My plan is to keep this position until at least 6
months have passed giving MS plenty of time to patch the service patch,
which has already begun. When corporations such as IBM and Novell delay
deployment (and rightly so), I like to take their lead and apply it to
my business on a micro scale. As a matter of fact, articles such as
this one only bolster my position:
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PC-WELT discovers and fixes serious security issue in Windows XP SP2
[
Article Here ]
"Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies
helps you protect your PC against viruses, hackers, and worms." - this
is how Microsoft promotes its Service Pack 2 on its website. What the
company does not say:
Instead of viruses, worms, and hackers,
the supposedly safe SP2 for Windows XP invites any Internet user to
have a look around your PC.
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Now, I do recommend installing all other incremental critical patches.
However, none of my personal machines nor those of my clients are
running SP2 at this time (with the exception of my test boxes).
Now, others may have a different opinion, and I'm certainly open to
hear them. This is a good discussion albeit moving away from the FF
debacle.
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