Adek wrote in to tell us about the leaked Windows 2000 SP4. The file weighs in at a about 136 MB. The preview release of the SP4 beta will run for approximately 1 month, according to WinBeta, who first reported on the release. More, including the download, can be found at techconnect.com.
Windows 2000 SP4 Beta Leaked
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Wow, sweet. A leaked service pack. How very exciting. Whats next? a leaked securty fix for IE?
Man, screw Dano and B.E. OS, this is far more thrilling.
If I get this right, yesterday a bufferoverflow was found that made it possible to embedd malicious code into a audiofile on windows.
now we have a report of a service pack being leaked.
Poll:
which of above mentioned news items would you rather have read?
This is OSNews. A leaked service pack is OS news. Malicious code in ID3 atrributes is not. If it turns out to be a mostly Windows problem (and it may, since the afflication is in the way Windows reads attributes when file scanning a directory) it will be here.
…here’s my take on it: Microsoft has finally come to
understand how -immensely- important ‘Release Early,
Release Often’ is also to -their- busines.
Congratulations, Steve!
As bad as it sounds I would rather have the bufferoverflow.
It can be fixed. And if not you can be careful what files you play.
If their security isn’t good enough to keep service packs from getting leaked, that’s scary.
it is certainly more news than a leaked service pack.
since it affects the windows platform in a rather nasty way.
I would have rather heard about the security hole than this. In fact, I’d love to see any ‘critical’ security holes posted here.
This is OSNews. A leaked service pack is OS news. Malicious code in ID3 atrributes is not.
So when has something not being OS news prevented you (mainly Eugenia) from posting in the past ?
Suggestions noted. If you see a newsbit you’d like to see on OSnews, please feel free to use the “Submit News” form accessible from the navigation menu.
In the meantime, let’s try to keep on focus in this comment string.
all you complaining retards don’t need to post here. I’m highly interested in SP4 because I run Win2K on every machine i’ve got. SP3 was pretty decent. I like to slipstream the latest SP and make a bootable ISO so I can re-image my drive
Only a nerd gets cheap kicks from re-installing Win2K every month or two like I do, and DAMMIT Service Pack 4 most definitely IS news! THanks for posting this shizzle y’all
How hard its EULA will rape you. I fear for the worst.
How hard its EULA will rape you. I fear for the worst.
EULAs are only as good as the degree to which they can be enforced
If MS wants to put something in their EULA that says I can’t run their latest version of Word on both computers I own, then f**k ’em .. I’m going to do it anyway. The only thing standing in my way is Product Activation, which has been ‘circumventable’ from the beginning, so long as you get your software from alt.cd.images instead of Best Buy 😉
Since the sites give few details, has anyone any idea whats in this?
Beta SP3s were also leaked all the time. Beta SP1s of XP were also leaked all the time. Who didn’t expect SP4 betas to be leaked???
Am I the only person who has a problem with this concept?
>>>>If MS wants to put something in their EULA that says I can’t run their latest version of Word on both computers I own, then f**k ’em.
Read the EULA, the full version of Office XP allows you to install it in 2 computers — you just have to call Microsoft for the second computer’s activation.
I don’t think this should be a OSNews mainly for the fact that this is a LEAK product. As soon Microsoft gets a official beta or better still the final service pack out of the door, report it all you want.
M$ never leaked any software, they make you all windows user test their software trough the “leaked” licence.
That licence mean you agree to:
-pay for the testing hardware config
-get the software yourself, letting M$ ressource free for “real” marketing.
-assume all possible security network hole and keep M$ away from that like if they were to test those in-house.
-let M$ survey just how much consumer are aware of their bug, for free.
-ask no money from that testing
-don’t come to cry at M$ if you loose data in the operation
-let yourself feel a little special for having that crap before all other
If you really want the solution, ask the authority to force M$ to refund you + the time you lost with buggy stuff or ask for a new fully boxed windows. If you got it pre-installed, then ask the computer maker a new computer that work … say just that: i want a computer that work!
The automotive industry work like that, software also can. Happy xmas Bill
(PS: that opinion apply only to commercial software)
no you definitely are not the only one having a weird feeling about beta releasing bugfixes.
Even holding back the bugfixes to package them in a service pack sounds funny to me. If a bugfix (notably security bugs) is available it should be released asap (after testing ofcourse). but holding fixes for one security hole back untill you have a fix for other minor bugs too is just plain stupid