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At work we’ve been asked to install Office XP Service Pack 3 for the ‘added security features’ and so on. Fair enough, security’s quite important and all that… Having done so, however, the only differences I’ve noticed is that IE and Outlook have been re-added to my Quick Launch toolbar (I’d replaced IE with Firefox a while ago… Outlook was already there so I ended up with two Outlook icons…), and images that used to open quite happily in Firefox now launch Microsoft’s crappy Photo Editor. Grrr. Since when was Photo Editor anything to do with Office? Or maybe it’s ‘more secure’?
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Anyhoo… back to work… Now that my CVS module is un-broken I can get some work done 
(Note to self: don’t use Eclipse to move java packages around in a CVS module… everything gets a tad confused)
Damn straight – I have some third party apps that now wont install after XP SP2 – since its not XP – grrrreat.
Security – I hope you jest. Making people aware doesnt make it okay. That functionallity was there before, now its just got nice … well – its got dialogue boxes.
Its not statefull and its not egress – only incoming.
But then again – I am not showing a suprised face here either