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This is related to Window's Data Execution Prevention (DEP) security feature. A detailed description can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352

This is related to Window's Data Execution Prevention (DEP) security feature. A detailed description can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352 IE8 and Google Chrome interact with this feature for process isolation. I've seen reports online of this feature affecting both: http://activerain.com/blogsview/763323/data-execution-prevention-crashes-google-chrome-when-print-just-disable-dep http://activerain.com/blogsview/763323/data-execution-preven... I'm sure Microsoft discovered this problem during the very thorough testing of IE8 and added some code to fix/defend against this problem by editing the boot.ini. Clearly this is an issue which affects a very small number of users, so it is reasonable to expect that the fix can itself break for an even smaller number of users. sigh So in the end, this is more mindless, ignorant Microsoft bashing. It simply isn't justified. There are many things to dislike about them, such as weak leadership and lack of "taste". But certainly not incompetence or malice.

sofal 17y ago
sigh So in the end, this is more mindless, ignorant Microsoft bashing. It simply isn't justified. Cut the guy a break. He's letting off some steam about something absolutely ridiculous that has happened to him. Don't always expect people to comment on their unpleasant personal experiences with a detached, unbiased, global, balanced, carefully worded judgment as though they had the full attention of an entire nation.
- phugoid 17y ago
  Not of an entire nation. Of the whole world! It's one thing to be spiteful in public, but quite another to be spiteful in a medium that publishes immediately to the whole planet.
  - sofal 17y ago
    Let's be realistic here. Just because you can technically view a rant on some blog somewhere from anywhere in the world doesn't mean it's going to be on the minds of millions of people. This whole "publish to the world" idea is a kind of delusion.
    - dkarl 17y ago
      So if we all read it, it's an intemperate, unjustified, mildly idiotic anti-M$ rant that wasted our time. But if we don't read it, it's just one understandably frustrated guy letting off a little steam. And that means whoever posted the link to HN transformed him from a normal guy into a global idiot.
      - sofal 17y ago
        The point is that it is a rant on a blog, and the real idiots here are you and I sitting here in a forum discussing its merits as a literary contribution to society.
rbanffy 17y ago
"mindless, ignorant Microsoft bashing" How exactly can a complaint over such a stupid program behaviour - a program installation overwriting a critical system file - be considered mindless ignorant Microsoft bashing? I am really bothered by the strong pro-Microsoft bias I see here.

sofal 17y ago

sigh So in the end, this is more mindless, ignorant Microsoft bashing. It simply isn't justified. Cut the guy a break. He's letting off some steam about something absolutely ridiculous that has happened to him. Don't always expect people to comment on their unpleasant personal experiences with a detached, unbiased, global, balanced, carefully worded judgment as though they had the full attention of an entire nation.

phugoid 17y ago
Not of an entire nation. Of the whole world! It's one thing to be spiteful in public, but quite another to be spiteful in a medium that publishes immediately to the whole planet.
- sofal 17y ago
  Let's be realistic here. Just because you can technically view a rant on some blog somewhere from anywhere in the world doesn't mean it's going to be on the minds of millions of people. This whole "publish to the world" idea is a kind of delusion.
  - dkarl 17y ago
    So if we all read it, it's an intemperate, unjustified, mildly idiotic anti-M$ rant that wasted our time. But if we don't read it, it's just one understandably frustrated guy letting off a little steam. And that means whoever posted the link to HN transformed him from a normal guy into a global idiot.
    - sofal 17y ago
      The point is that it is a rant on a blog, and the real idiots here are you and I sitting here in a forum discussing its merits as a literary contribution to society.

rbanffy 17y ago

"mindless, ignorant Microsoft bashing" How exactly can a complaint over such a stupid program behaviour - a program installation overwriting a critical system file - be considered mindless ignorant Microsoft bashing? I am really bothered by the strong pro-Microsoft bias I see here.