“Games, security software and popular business programs are clashing with Microsoft’s long-awaited security update for Windows XP. Since SP2 was released to business users, reports have circulated about programs behaving differently once the upgrade is in place,’ BBC News reports. “Microsoft has drawn up a long list of programs that do not sit well with SP2. Included in the list are games such as Unreal Tournament, Photoshop Elements and most file-sharing programs.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: For our Windows-only friends, information about smoothly adding a Mac OS X machine to your computing arsenal can be found here.
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Shattering the Mac OS X ‘security through obscurity’ myth – August 28, 2003
Fortune columnist: ‘get a Mac’ to thwart viruses; right answer for the wrong reasons – September 02, 2003
New York Times: Mac OS X ‘much more secure than Windows XP’ – September 18, 2003
Columnist tries the ‘security through obscurity’ myth to defend Windows vs. Macs on virus front – October 1, 2003
Gates: Windows ‘by far the most secure’ system; tries to use ‘Mac OS X secure through obscurity’ myth – January 27, 2004
Mac OS X has no viruses; what’s wrong with Windows? – February 11, 2004
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Gartner: Worms jack up the total cost of Microsoft Windows – May 07, 2004
Apple exec: Mac OS X is ‘more secure than other platforms, certainly more secure than Microsoft Windows’ – June 14, 2004
Microsoft developing own antivirus software for leaky Windows – June 16, 2004
What’s the point of Anti-Virus for already-virus-free Mac OS X? – June 24, 2004
Microsoft Windows is a sieve, easy-to-compromise – August 13, 2004
Win XP SP2 enhancements cause conflicts, don’t protect as claimed – August 14, 2004
I’m going to repeat something someone else said, because it bares repeating:
“I used to visit this site alot, but I’ve been away. Now that I’m back strolling around, I can’t believe I ever used to agree with most of this garbage. Don’t get me wrong, I love Apple products, and I carry my share of zeal, but this “news” site is crap. Mac Daily News. OK, so where’s the Mac news? It seems that MDN relishes in the misfortune of MS/XP. That is not Mac news.It is MDN throwing a big juicy steak to a pack of wolves, exactly what they criticize the trolls for.
Mac users don’t need to convince anybody that their product is superior, especially at this particular site. The trash that is talked about companies other than Apple (even talk trash about IBM for delayed chips, but you all jump for joy that you have a G5) is the same sort of stuff that your MS counterparts do. I thought the Mac community was a little more sophisticated than this. Reporting the dirty laundry of other companies is not Mac news. It’s exactly what CNET, Enderle and all those other boneheads do. Trash talk the competition. But it’s ok for us to do it because it’s Apple?
Now that I’m back reading this site after being away, it is painfully (and embarassingly) obvious that the banter in here is no better than the crap that PC users talk. The bar is higher for us guys. No need to be like the trolls.”
And one more time:
“I used to visit this site alot, but I’ve been away. Now that I’m back strolling around, I can’t believe I ever used to agree with most of this garbage. Don’t get me wrong, I love Apple products, and I carry my share of zeal, but this “news” site is crap. Mac Daily News. OK, so where’s the Mac news? It seems that MDN relishes in the misfortune of MS/XP. That is not Mac news.It is MDN throwing a big juicy steak to a pack of wolves, exactly what they criticize the trolls for.
Mac users don’t need to convince anybody that their product is superior, especially at this particular site. The trash that is talked about companies other than Apple (even talk trash about IBM for delayed chips, but you all jump for joy that you have a G5) is the same sort of stuff that your MS counterparts do. I thought the Mac community was a little more sophisticated than this. Reporting the dirty laundry of other companies is not Mac news. It’s exactly what CNET, Enderle and all those other boneheads do. Trash talk the competition. But it’s ok for us to do it because it’s Apple?
Now that I’m back reading this site after being away, it is painfully (and embarassingly) obvious that the banter in here is no better than the crap that PC users talk. The bar is higher for us guys. No need to be like the trolls.”
I think there are too many Windoze slagging fests here on MDN. I thank MDN for their outstanding site and their wit, but to hear yet another slag is kinda getting annoying.
It really only benefits the newbies who don’t know why Mac’s kick butt over Windows.
Slagging Winblows is kinda like insulting a kid in a wheel chair with a broken leg. You have to feel sorry for the poor sucke-, or lemmin- er people who use Winclose.
(I think I speak for many here – we already knew XP SP 2 would be a cock up in many ways, so does it need to be said?)