68_andahalf_68 writes:  

The Mozilla Foundation and Microsoft have decided on a common icon between their two browsers.

According to the Vole Bogs, here, Volish servitors met with John Lilly and Chris Beard from Mozilla and agreed to use the Firefox RSS Feed icon in IE too.

The blog says that Microsoft will be using the icon in the IE7 command bar whenever a page has a feed associated with it, and it will appear in other places in the browser whenever we need a visual to represent RSS and feeds.

"This isn’t the first time that we’ve worked with the Mozilla team to exchange ideas and encourage consistency between browsers, and we’re sure it won’t be the last," the blog said.

IE7 will get a public pre-release build next year.

News source: The Inquirer

Windows security flaw could allow hackers to take over PCs through malicious Web sites.
December 13, 2005: 9:04 PM EST

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday warned users of its Windows operating system of a "critical" security flaw in its software that could allow attackers to take complete control of a computer.

The world's largest software maker issued a patch to fix the problem as part of its monthly security bulletin. The problem mainly affects the Windows operating system and Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser.

Computer security experts and Microsoft urged users to download and install the patch available at www.microsoft.com/security.

Microsoft said the vulnerability exists in its Internet Explorer Web browser, which an attacker could exploit to take over a PC by running software code after luring users to malicious Web pages.

Microsoft also issued one other security warning it rated at its second-highest level of "important."  Read More...

In the beginning was XP and XP begat XP SP1. And things were mostly working. Then, XP SP1 begat XP SP2 and my life became hell.

Having had enough, this morning at 7:00 am I decide to follow Microsoft's 3 step easy unistall
Run appwiz.cpl
Select show updates
Click remove
Live happily ever after

7 hours later, at least 12-15 reboots, scouring the Inernet for how to work around the BSOD, how to trick the installer into letting me do things, on and on, I am now back to XP SP1 and never to return to XP SP2 until they get it really fixed.

And before you say it, I have to have XP to be compatible with my employer. I hate Microsoft.

Have you noticed that inexplicably, after applying XP SP2 that certain web pages seem to load slower? Are you experiencing slower/different ftp connection issues? Dropped ftp connections? If you have any of these symptoms and/or other 'out of the blue' issues with performance where multiple TCP connections are needed, you MUST read on! Billy Gates strikes again, apparently continuing to believe that MS knows better than you what your system needs are :GRRRRR:! Read More...