Microsoft’s Service Pack 2 (SP2) update to the Windows XP operating system is nearing its release, but repeated warnings from the software giant and a bug that bit some users of 64-bit hardware are highlighting the potential negative impact of the service pack, which analysts have called a whole new operating system in its size and scope. The bug, which Microsoft product manager Tony Goodhew blamed on new hardware-based security known as no-execute — or NX technology — is an example of how security tightening can render applications inoperable.
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Windows XP Service Pack 2 Coming, Bugs and All
Posted by: Jay Lyman May 25, 2004 02:43 PMMicrosoft’s Service Pack 2 (SP2) update to the Windows XP operating system is nearing its release, but repeated warnings from the software giant and a bug that bit some users of 64-bit hardware are highlighting the potential negative impact of the service pack, which analysts have called a whole new operating system in its size and scope. The bug, which Microsoft product manager Tony Goodhew blamed on new hardware-based security known as no-execute — or NX technology — is an example of how security tightening can render applications inoperable.