[Bush2000]

A Mercedes breaks down far, far less often than a Chevy.

Bogus analogy. IE has tons of malicious people trying to dismantle the "engine" while it's running -- while marginal browsers don't have the same kinds of attacks. To attribute this to differences in quality is just ridiculous. As we see from this posting, Mozilla/Firefox ain't Mercedes. When subjected to the same kinds of attention, they break down similarly.

[thoughtomator]

Untrue. Firefox, unlike IE, is not intimately tied into the OS, and thus is inherently less vulnerable to the most devastating attacks.

[Dominic Harr]

When subjected to the same kinds of attention, they break down similarly.

Sure. And when subjected to the same kinds of driving, a Mercedes will break down in similar ways to a Ford -- fuel pumps, starters, etc, all will break.

Just not as often.

That is what quality *means*. That's how we define "quality".

Are MS-only folks really so unfamiliar with the concept? (again, fill in your own punchline here)

[FastCoyote]

"while marginal browsers don't have the same kinds of attacks"

Exactly why I've gone to Firefox! The exploit listed above is going to reside on how many websites? I've known the whole IIS and IE infrastructure has been broken since the Code Red virus. Just look in your software upgrade list andsee how many patch/kludges have been applied.