I think that this corporate policy will have far more impact on your company than on Microsoft. As more and more people and companies deploy XP2, it makes me wonder if you should just consider leaving the Microsoft market entirely.
As to why it isn't on Windows Update... I would guess that is because not everyone is running your software or software that is impacted by what you are complaining about. I have been running XP2 on several machines for some time now and have no issues with it on them. My work laptop isn't running XP2 but that is simply because I am waiting for the corporate go ahead once they finish regression testing all apps. I have a virtual machine on the laptop running XP2 that I have been testing it with the corporate network and everything seems to be fine there. My question would be, did your app break only on the final release or did you guys just ignore the public beta figuring you didn't need to test your product because it was, IYO, MS's responsibility to make sure you worked after the update? Does your company as a whole feel attempts at securing machines shouldn't be attempted by Microsoft? I am curious what this says about your company's take on security is. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregory Gilliss Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox One comment about XP2 - the company where I work (which produces security networking appliances) has a corporate policy - we do not support XP2. Sales hates this (because all the numbnuts out there are pulling SP2 down with autoupdate and they have no clue what they have brought upon themselves) but since M$ was so idiotic as to disable the network functionality that allows reverse proxies to function properly (and I'm not talking about Juniper's back door where they pipe things straight through) it basically makes my company's (and every other company's) product break. The really dumb part is that M$ has a patch for their misdeeds and a knowledge base article and everything - but it's not incoroporated into autoupdate. Wonder why they would not include that fix for SP2 in autoupdate? Maybe they *want* to break other company's products? Nah ... <G> G _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
