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That doesn't prove anything. People said it was crap because it was. Then SP1 was released with 1+ year and it became pretty good. By SP3 it was rock solid beca
by kasabali 6y ago
That doesn't prove anything. People said it was crap because it was. Then SP1 was released with 1+ year and it became pretty good. By SP3 it was rock solid because that's 7 years of bug fixes keeping other changes to minimum. That's what giving bugs does to software, no surprise here.
- optimiz3 6y agoMicrosoft made a big security pivot during XP. Gates put his foot down and forced the company to reprioritize secure engineering over everything else during the SP(2?) timeframe.
- lou1306 6y agoThey also made a pretty big push toward formal verification of drivers, which were often the culprit for insecure/unstable machines. Their SLAM model checker [0] was avant-garde (in industry terms, at least). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAM_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAM_project
- ThrowawayB7 6y agoYep, the whole Trustworthy Computing initiative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing There was a huge investment in training, tools, and creating security specialists. It took a long time to turn the ship around but security issues started trending down a few years after that.
- kasabali 6y ago... I'm sorry about typos with 1+ year -> with 1+ year of bug fixes giving bugs -> fixing bugs
- Jaruzel 6y agoIt's worth mentioning that WPA2 for WiFi doesn't work in XP unless you install SP3, regardless of the WiFi drivers you use. As this leak is only XP SP1, it will be missing a lot of the bugfixes and upgrades that XP added by SP3 (and beyond).
- Trioxin 6y agoThink of how easily it will be though to reverse engineer the patches in the SP and apply them to the actual source.