Uber-patch for Internet Explorer

malevolence writes: "According to The Register, Microsoft has released an Uber-Patch for Internet Explorer that fixes all known security problems, as well as 3 new ones, including the content-type issue that was reported on slashdot a few days ago."

Comments

now doesn't that make you feel better?

[siphoncolder]

for once, michael reports good news about MS.

for /.'s next trick, JonKatz will post a relevant article, and /.'ers won't bash him.

who cares?

[mosch]

I hate to bitch that slashdot sucks, because everybody knows that, but who cares about this patch? This isn't a fix to Mozilla, Konqueror, Lynx, Opera or any of the other pieces of software that slashdotters actually use.

Why does a fix to a program that nobody here uses, written by a company that everybody here hates matter?

Re:Sensationalism courtesy of /.

[eyeball]

It's good to hear a voice of reason around here once in a while.

M$ is a string variable

[yerricde]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe "M$" is childish name calling.

M$ is a name for a string variable in a language that Bill Gates and Microsoft popularized on early 8-bit home computers. This language was Basic. This code works on Applesoft Basic (the Basic interpreter included with Apple II) and QBasic (the Basic interpreter included with MS-DOS until about 7.1). I haven't tried it on Visual Basic.

10 M$ = "HELLO WORLD"
20 PRINT M$

Re:Can't turn off search-from-toolbar??

[karlm]

Much the same thing happens if you change the option and then restart IE.

WTF?

I guess that aspect of functionality wasn't tested thuroughly, becuase it's not officially supported for MS Sheeple. Silly power user, don't you know you're not supposed to be monkeying with settings? Most of those pulldowns are there just for decorations on the pretty XP title bars.