One really annoying thing - as with every Explorer upgrade - is that it insists on adding loads of Bookmarks to your browser. (Ed's note 2: I didn't notice with XP either. Otherwise you won't notice any difference in look and feel.
Yes, but only if you're running it with Windows XP. Anyway, it lets you pull the source into Notepad or Word with one click.Ī New Intelligent Design. But then you can't legislate for stupidity.Īlso, was the Edit button always there? We can't remember. It may also stop people realising that they've put up a hi-res pic by mistake and so pages may start taking longer to download. Which is handy, although if you want to pinch a pic and do some Photoshop on it, you will now have no idea how big the file is. The auto resize basically constricts any pic that doesn't fit on the page so that it does. It will save you having to save images on the desktop and then save them into an email or whatever. You can still do it though by right-clicking. The image Toolbar - which allows you to send or save an image at the click of a button (a little box appears if you hold the cursor over a pic) - will only appear if you have WinXP. What that means is the new image Toolbar, Media button and auto image resize. When you get a popup asking if it's OK to send something entirely unintelligible to people you definitely don't trust, are you really going to click OK?)įlexibility To Experience the Web the Way You Want. (Ed's note: this is sort of a good idea, the point being that Microsoft Central can get automated reports of what's causing most crashes, and therefore is far better positioned to decide which bugs to nail first. And who really cares? If it's crashed, it's crashed. We haven't checked this yet because it hasn't crashed yet (incredible, we know - an entire day too). Apparently when Explorer crashes, rather than just crashing, it will tell you why it crashed and even send the info to Redmond so they can make everyone's lives better. So no major disruption of business as usual there then. But not enough for most people to make any kind of reasoned judgement, and not enough for them to be induced to muck around with the default settings. You've got a bit more flexibility as regards security levels, and a bit more information about the cookies you're being offered. For some environments, failure to test before implementation may lead to a loss of required functionality.But back to M$' selling points: better privacy.
The extensive variety of environments makes it impossible to test these guidelines for all potential software configurations. It must be noted that the guidelines specified should be evaluated in a local, representative test environment before implementation within large user populations. RegulatoryĭoD Directive (DoDD) 8500.1 Comments/Warnings/Miscellaneous: This document does not include specific guidance for UNIX or Linux or Apple desktop environments at this time.
The superset of these requirements can be found in the appropriate Windows Checklist, which is also available from the IASE web site. These documents include various National Security Agency (NSA) guides (found at ) and the Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista Addendum available from the IASE web site (). This document, along with the associated STIG, has set forth requirements based upon having a secured Windows environment as described in various other documents.