Posts by yuhong

Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server. *Insert 'Wow... that much?' joke here*

CompatTelRunner

In the meantime, I am still focusing on CompatTelRunner and what is now called Desktop Analytics, which is shipped in both Windows 10 and Windows 7/8/8.1 updates. I believe that Desktop Analytics (formerly Upgrade Readiness and Upgrade Analytics) works by associating the collected data with a "commercial ID" that is entered into the registry. The most likely reason why CompatTelRunner is causing high CPU and HDD/SSD usage (which even MS employees not working in the Windows division complain about) is Appraiser doing for example application and device inventory, which has "enterprise" and "indicator generation" modes that to this day MS refuses to document.

Intel Atom chips have been dying for at least 18 months – only now is truth coming to light

Re: Insider's View

The other fun thing is there is the NDA spec updates for engineering sample steppings.

Virgin Media takes its time on website crypto upgrade

Seems that it at least matches https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1143035

Dodgy Norton update borks UNDEAD XP systems

On MSE and WinXP...

Unfortunately, I know of no way to turn off the WinXP warning in MSE, and they only guarantee definition updates until July 2015 anyway.

Panic like it's 1999: Microsoft Office macro viruses are BACK

Re: The macro virus would spread into a user's Office template files

I don't think these things are actually macro viruses in the old sense, and making normal.dot read only will not work with these.

Redmond is patching Windows 8 but NOT Windows 7, say security bods

Re: As someone still running Windows XP x64 ...

"there is a large pregnant pause every time I open up my home folder, and I for one don't appreciate it."

On my Win8.1 machine it doesn't show that much of a pause. You many want to check if your sysadmin has redirected this folder to a network location.

Re: As someone still running Windows XP x64 ...

Just because it is not having any more service packs don't mean it is "dead in the water".

Whitehall and Microsoft negotiate NHS Windows XP hacker survival plan

Re: @yuhong It's not just the NHS

Not to mention that supporting WinXP is expensive too, which is probably why it costs more than even NT4/2000 CSAs.

Re: @yuhong It's not just the NHS

Fortunately I don't think there has been any security bulletins for Exchange Server 2003 in years.

Re: It's not just the NHS

> It's also not limited to windows XP. It also applies to Server 2003

However Server 2003 don't end support until July 2015, more than a year after XP support ends.

> and that is based on what is critical in Windows 7, not XP.

I don't believe this is true. And BTW I think you can pay extra for fixes for less severe security issues under Custom Support.

Windows NT: Remember Microsoft's almost perfect 20-year-old?

Re: A question from a young'un of 31...

I think this character mode OS/2 1.x subsystem (and POSIX subsystem) lasted all the way to Win2000.

I have a blog post on the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco

http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-px00307-and-dr.html

OS/2 a quarter century on: Why IBM lost out and how Microsoft won

Re: If Commodore didn't mismanage itself to the early grave...

Yea, the Multitasking DOS 4.0 fiasco where MS focused on a *real-mode* multitasking OS.

Re: OS/2 was not that great

"only getting clean with OS/2 Warp (which IBM had locked MS out of).."

And that is where the more aggressive attacks done by MS like "Microsoft Munchkins" dates from.

Microsoft Munchkins

Don't forget "Microsoft Munchkins" and other unethical attacks on OS/2 that MS did while Chicago was delayed.

IBM insider: How I caught my wife while bug-hunting on OS/2

Re: It wasn't all IBM's fault

To be more precise, the *32-bit* OS/2 days. In fact it was *MS* that sent the original OS/2 2.0 SDK to developers in early 1990. Now you see why I have an extremely bad opinion about the entire MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco.

Re: Testing was a concept Microsoft struggled with?

BTW, my favorite is PX00307. http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/011607/0000/PX00307.pdf

It has plenty of red signs. It for example claims that "Windows 32-bit extenders" are a substitute for OS/2 2.0 ignoring their problems like no preemptive multitasking (some of which even persist in Win9x). Notice that neither Dave Cutler or Gordon Letwin were in the To or Cc lists!

Re: Testing was a concept Microsoft struggled with?

I think OP was talking about the 1.x era, but yes I consider the entire MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco extremely bad.

MS OS/2 2.0

Personally what I consider extremely bad is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco. I really should write an entire article about this one. In the meantime, look up "MS OS/2 2.0 SDK" and "Microsoft Munchkins" and you will see why.