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Google fixes Microsoft's security risk
volesoft ^
| 07 December 2005
| Nick Farrell:
Posted on 12/07/2005 6:55:39 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Google was so concerned that a flaw in Microsoft's IE browser might compromise its toolbar technology it managed to fixed it within a few days of finding out about the problem. Microsoft, on the other hand, has known about the problem for six months and is promising that a patch might be available next Tuesday, possibly, maybe.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: google; ie; internetexploder; internetexplorer; microsoft; security; windows
This is so typical of microsoft's flagrant attitude towards security. Once they start treating security as a process, instead of what they do now.... which is treating security as a feature... they'll continue to be the laughing stock of IT.
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
12/07/2005 9:06:36 PM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
12/08/2005 6:09:22 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Microsoft has an incentive to NOT fix these problems. If they fixed them all, we wouldn't want their next operating system.
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posted on
12/08/2005 7:22:19 AM PST
by
aimhigh
To: aimhigh
They have just as much incentive to fix them.
Instead of upgrading to Vista, people might upgrade to a mac or linux.
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posted on
12/08/2005 1:23:18 PM PST
by
Halfmanhalfamazing
(Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. Apple's own numbers are hard to argue with.)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Instead of "upgrading" to Vista, people might upgrade to a mac or linux.
There, I fixed it! ;)
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posted on
12/11/2005 6:34:47 AM PST
by
melbell
(A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing, and say your mother)
To: melbell
LOL!!!!
In all fairness, Vista will be much different to XP, unlike what XP was to 2k.
Just make sure you've got a dual core and 2gb of ram to run the OS. :-P
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posted on
12/11/2005 5:25:05 PM PST
by
Halfmanhalfamazing
(Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. Apple's own numbers are hard to argue with.)
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