Windows XP SP2 inches closer
InternetNews | at | by Mike
A second release candidate for Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 (XP SP2) could make its debut here as early as Wednesday if developers could work out a nasty bug that affects gaming on 64-bit hardware.
According to people familiar with the matter, beta testers running games on 64-bit systems reported problems with the hardware-enforced data execute protection (also known as NX, or no execute) which is built into SP2 to thwart buffer overflow attack scenarios.