Google fixes Microsoft's security risk

volesoft ^ | 07 December 2005 | Nick Farrell:

[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.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

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.

[JoJo Gunn]

ping

[ShadowAce]

[aimhigh]

Microsoft has an incentive to NOT fix these problems. If they fixed them all, we wouldn't want their next operating system.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

They have just as much incentive to fix them.

Instead of upgrading to Vista, people might upgrade to a mac or linux.

[melbell]

Instead of "upgrading" to Vista, people might upgrade to a mac or linux.

There, I fixed it! ;)

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

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