Microsoft Lists Apps Affected by XP SP2

Thanks to Microsoft Watch we now have a pointer to a KB article listing apps that they know will have problems with SP2.

Gee Symantec Corporate edition 8 is on there. That’s one of ours, although the work-around seems simple enough. Guess I’ll find out for sure soon enough.

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