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More on Windows Vista - worst OS yet?
DLL from XP on a Windows 98/SE system, for example? What about the myriad files involved with MDAC? "should be fairly safe" is like using a condom that's ten years old. If these are "home grown" OCXs you're dealing with, keep in mind that there's nothing forcing you to install an app to Sys32.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 07-03-07
42779 Assigned Incorrect forcing from HTTP/1.0 request to HTTP/1.1 response 43057 Open mod_php can't resolve any hostname 43081 Open ..... php's exec() requires a shell 35482 Assigned Bad performance of filesystem functions on Windows XP Professional 35547 Open Audio file compression 35580 Open Adding SAX handlers

ActiveX create problem in Vista
Debian Installer maor-instal...@debian.org fa linux debian These i386 packages were installed into the Debian hierarchy in the last week: ----- ! .... Corrected preinst so it doesn't fail if not already installed (closes: #47021, #47531) * Use x-windows-manager alternatives system (closes: #40733) * Corrected

Ignorance
Microsoft says support for Open XML is growing ,----[ Quote ] | Jones wrote that the so-called Office compatibility pack for Word, | Excel and PowerPoint 2007 is the second most popular download on | Microsoft's Web site, behind only Internet Explorer 7 for the | Service Pack 2 release of Windows XP.

CRN reviews SuSE 10
Most Windows XP users will at one time or another have encountered a Windows crash message indicating that some application that they were using has terminated .... less reliable, more difficult to program for, more difficult to support, more vulnerable to hostile code, and with more compatibility problems.

Vista x Delphi 2006
Yeah, but the point was that compatibility between Windows XP and Office 2000 isn'ta problem with the industry. I've also been trying to get the point across Nobody was forcing you to buy it. You did it because you wanted to, and you also didn't make much of an effort to figure out what your real problem was,

Dear Santa, Please Don't Bring Me A Linux PC For Christmas!
Windows(r) is the world's most popular operating system. Not just with users but also with the bad guys – hackers, spammers, spies, virus programmers, phishers, .... program designed for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. This is done by forcing Windows to remove all the data that is not currently needed from the memory.

MS04-024 - Vulnerability in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code ...
They convince | OEM manufacturers to put little stickers on all thePCs they build | that include little logos to prove that they are Windows compatible or | "built for Windows." They convince those same OEMs plus OEMs of other | peripheral devices to include words like "We recommend Windows | XP" in alltheir ads.

Vista SP1---300 hot fixes!
The last major upgrade to Internet Explorer, however, was only offered for Windows XP Service Pack 2. Despite initial plans of delaying the release of Internet It supports XHTML 1.0 to the extent that HTML 4.01 compatibility guidelines are followed. Internet Explorer uses DOCTYPE sniffing to choose between

Windows vista will leave too many people behind.
42779 Open Incorrect forcing from HTTP/1.0 request to HTTP/1.1 response ===============================================[Arrays related]=============== ..... a shell 35482 Assigned Bad performance of filesystem functions on Windows XP Professional 35547 Open Audio file compression 35580 Open Adding SAX handlers to

NEA ΚΑΙ ΟΜΟΡΦΑ
My guess is that Windows Installer doesn't want to downgrade common components from .NET V1.0SP2 to V1.0 (see excerpt from Windows Installer log at end of My attempts at forcing the installation (eg msiexec /Lvoicewarmup foo2.log /fa netfxsdk.msi) have proved futile, whilst just deleteing files sounds like an

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 04-01-07
How much did the XP Pro upgrade cost from 2000? Windows 2000 was 5.0 and XP is 5.1. :) You are a idiot John, we have free upgrades for .0.1 changes that are Apple also kills binary compatibility between upgrades (MS's 1996 OS, NT4, runs MSIE6 just fine, but Apple's 2002 OS, 10.1, won't even run Safari) far more

Newbie nervous about OCXes and reliability.
43261 Open Use ^ as escape char for windows escapeshellcmd 43269 Open Retreive FD_SETSIZE within PHP 43274 Open __destruct 2 43287 Open Unserialize is very include latest cURLlib in windows distro 43342 Open Add PDO constant MYSQL_ATTR_CLIENT_FOUND_ROWS in order to influence rowCount() 43456 Open forcing type

Panther WOW!
Nlite looks good as far as deploying copies of Windows, but I don't do that kind of thing. And as you pointed out, they show you how to avoid having to Some are concerned with backward compatibility and some aren't. I'm fully aware of this, of course. Mainly I'm referring to commercial software developers.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 18-02-07
It is easy to use and works on systems operating with Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP. Anytime you accidentally delete important files that haven't .... Instead of forcing users to remember passwords, an administrator can store them in KeyPass, assign a "read-only" password and distribute them to users.

Gaming Performance [was Re: Kwallen's Progress]
[366101] Windows XP and Acrobat Reader 5.0 Acrobat Reader 5.0 is not certified to run on Windows XP, as the final version of this operating system was not available for testing during Acrobat Reader 5.0's development. However, if compatibility problems with this operating system are found Adobe intends to develop

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 17-11-06
FAQ: Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, ME, 2000,XP supported Also: Mac OS Classic 8.1 – 9.X Mac OS X Mac OS X Server I have no experience with Mac but I am sure it At some point they will stop forcing me to upgrade to the next release. or conversion tools to convert packages to a format supported by the operating system.

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 10-04-07
42779 Assigned Incorrect forcing from HTTP/1.0 request to HTTP/1.1 response 43057 Feedback mod_php can't resolve any hostname ..... Open php's exec() requires a shell 35482 Assigned Bad performance of filesystem functions on Windows XP Professional 35547 Open Audio file compression 35580 Open Adding SAX handlers to

DVD Players?
"there is no guarantee of compatibility" Yes, there was, perhaps you CHOSE to pass on your rights and CHOSE to keep the system. Many others would have sent it back for a full refund...including shipping & handling. Also, who said "It was "guaranteed" to be build to run with Windows 98." If Dell, it is not relevant

New Debian sparc Packages
Deployment Information To install the security update without any user intervention, use the following command at a command prompt for Windows XP: Windowsxp-kb835732-x86-enu /passive /quiet To install the security update without forcing the system to restart, use the following command at a command prompt for