Understanding the Windows lifecycle policy (for all you IT Pros out there)

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IEBlog — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:03:42 GMT

Hey everyone, Christopher here with another in a string of Windows Lifecycle reminders.
Windows 98,...

re: Understanding the Windows lifecycle policy (for all you IT Pros out there)

myk oleary — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:46:11 GMT

So given the policy on the page linked to, does that mean that MAC IE 5.2.3 has an end of lifecycle on Jun 16, 2008 given a release date of 2003-06-16??? That seems a bit of a stretch given the fact that its development has been dropped. As a web dev, I'm a bit curious on that decision.

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Jim — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:59:46 GMT

> If you have an idea for a blog topic that hasn't already been beaten to death, let us know!

The feature set and standards support of Internet Explorer 7.

> What's curious is that typically our blog comments are full of comments from, shall we call them "browser enthusiasts," but this time it's been pretty quiet. Is Microsoft the only company with a lifecycle policy worth talking about?

No, it's because you changed the method of posting a comment recently. Now, when you scroll to the bottom, it looks like you've switched comments off. The link at the top doesn't stand out at all. Big usability mistake.

> Compare to these vulnerabilities discovered. Only eEye and Microsoft know how to exploit these vulnerabilities.

You cannot possibly know this. For all you know, your servers could have been compromised months ago by a blackhat who made the same discovery but chose not to share it.

> Well, it seems that that events have borne out my viewpoint. See:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007898.html
for an insider view of the disaster that is Firefox's 'open' security.

Asa said:

We've run into one of those "fix the root cause or patch around the symptoms" trade-offs and to prevent future security issues, we're leaning towards the "fix the root problem" fix.

You consider that to be a disaster? That behaviour is exactly what I want from vendors. It's a hell of a lot better than some of the "fixes" Microsoft has put out in the past, e.g. a patch that looked for and blocked the proof-of-concept, but didn't actually fix the vulnerability (that was some "crash the computer with a malformed packet" exploit, IIRC).

> You can conclude that we'll blog about IE & standards support again in the future! :) I can't speak about what we are or aren't doing in IE 7 yet.

Can you speak about when you can speak about them? It's been months and we still have virtually no information beyond some rumours that you wont touch CSS. Surely you have some idea of what you are attempting?

I asked for a simple yes or no regarding PNG alpha a while ago, with no answer. Can you at least tell us *when* you will say yes or no?

> a bunch of folks ask for "full <insert some standard or not really a standard here>" but don't really have any information to back it up.

What information would you like? I have asked for HTML 4.01, CSS 2/2.1, PNG 1.0 and HTTP 1.1, and I don't consider myself to be a "script kiddy" in the slightest.

I'd provide the information to "back it up", but I'm unsure what you need that you don't already have. You can read a specification, right? The information's right there.

re: Understanding the Windows lifecycle policy (for all you IT Pros out there)

Tom — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 23:51:25 GMT

Christopher Vaughan [MSFT] Wrote:
"As for whether or not we'll have IE7 for Windows 2000, that's not something I can talk about at this time."

Which only makes the above blog entry more confusing to me. Why reference a OS lifecycle policy that may or may not apply to IE7?

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Jonathan — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:50:41 GMT

Let's just get some more postings. It's been over a week since the last posting. Surely *someone* on the IE team can spare a few minutes to write a posting now and then... :)

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