Comments on: Microsoft mulls rushing out IE patch

Fix for a serious flaw in the Web browser may come early, as reports come in of Web sites using the hole for attacks.

[Jon N.]

Question: I.E.; Answer: Mozilla Firefox 1.5 !

We all know about the pitfalls of M$ I.E. and the answer is simple. Mozilla Firefox 1.5! An open-source, tabbed browser that is customizable, and free! Goto www.mozilla.com, download Firefox 1.5, and use I.E. only for your Windows updates! Stop worrying about I.E. bugs or attacks. Get Firefox 1.5, and get on with the fun of surfing the Web!
Firefox 1.5 just works!

[Jon N.]

Question: I.E.; Answer: Mozilla Firefox 1.5 !

We all know about the pitfalls of M$ I.E. and the answer is simple. Mozilla Firefox 1.5! An open-source, tabbed browser that is customizable, and free! Goto www.mozilla.com, download Firefox 1.5, and use I.E. only for your Windows updates! Stop worrying about I.E. bugs or attacks. Get Firefox 1.5, and get on with the fun of surfing the Web!
Firefox 1.5 just works!

[Bill Dautrive]

This is why there is no defense of MS

MIcrosoft is one of the few software companies that are reacted, not proactive. Look at open source and apple. Very, very few flaws are actually exploited, and fixes are out in hours, a few days at most.

Meanwhile at MS, flaws are exploited while MS is trying to figure out what to do with it.

MS needs to throw out all of their code and start from scratch. It is garbage, built on garbage and things will never improve until they started over. Pre-OSX macs sucked hard. They threw out everything, built thier OS on a rock solid and stable core and things have been great in AppleLand.

Meanwhile, the bloated and ironically underfeatured Vista is not going anywhere. It is built on a ton of garbage, and superficial paintjobs and barely adequete security rules will not get rid of the stench of the massive garbage heap it is built on.

This is why MS sucks, not only did they write the most bug-ridden collection of code on earth, but they integrated it all, including crap that has no business being a part of any OS.

In short MS is incompetent. There was tons of evidence 10 years ago, and that list od reasons has exploded exponentially since then.

[SquireSCA]

RE: This is why there is no defense of MS

It's easy for Apple to start over when hardly anybody uses Apple computers. MS has hundreds of millions of Windows machines worldwide.

MS also has flaws popping up, because so many people target them for attacks. Were Apple to have enough marketshare to make it a worthwhile target, you would see more attcks.

Let's look at it this way... You have one nuke and you want to take out as many people as possible. Do you lob that bomb at Taiwan or NYC, or some small island in the Pacific that has 50 natives living on it?

You go to the most target-rich environment, and in the OS world, that is Windows.

If Apple was so great, people would buy them, but they aren't.

[Bill Dautrive]

This is why there is no defense of MS

MIcrosoft is one of the few software companies that are reacted, not proactive. Look at open source and apple. Very, very few flaws are actually exploited, and fixes are out in hours, a few days at most.

Meanwhile at MS, flaws are exploited while MS is trying to figure out what to do with it.

MS needs to throw out all of their code and start from scratch. It is garbage, built on garbage and things will never improve until they started over. Pre-OSX macs sucked hard. They threw out everything, built thier OS on a rock solid and stable core and things have been great in AppleLand.

Meanwhile, the bloated and ironically underfeatured Vista is not going anywhere. It is built on a ton of garbage, and superficial paintjobs and barely adequete security rules will not get rid of the stench of the massive garbage heap it is built on.

This is why MS sucks, not only did they write the most bug-ridden collection of code on earth, but they integrated it all, including crap that has no business being a part of any OS.

In short MS is incompetent. There was tons of evidence 10 years ago, and that list od reasons has exploded exponentially since then.

[SquireSCA]

RE: This is why there is no defense of MS

It's easy for Apple to start over when hardly anybody uses Apple computers. MS has hundreds of millions of Windows machines worldwide.

MS also has flaws popping up, because so many people target them for attacks. Were Apple to have enough marketshare to make it a worthwhile target, you would see more attcks.

Let's look at it this way... You have one nuke and you want to take out as many people as possible. Do you lob that bomb at Taiwan or NYC, or some small island in the Pacific that has 50 natives living on it?

You go to the most target-rich environment, and in the OS world, that is Windows.

If Apple was so great, people would buy them, but they aren't.