Microsoft To Provide IE Patches for Windows XP Only

Fortunato_NC writes "Microsoft has decided that future IE updates, including those related to security, will only be available to customers using Windows XP. This news.com article has the complete scoop. A choice quote: 'Microsoft may be turning the lemons of its browser's security reputation into the lemonade of a powerful upgrade selling point.' This should provide a huge boost to Mozilla and other alternative browser backers."

Comments

Soup nazi ref?

[Chuck Bucket]

No patch for you!

Really, how can ppl buy MS if they know that in the future they may not recieve any support for their insecure software?

CB

Re:XP only ?

[Master of Transhuman]

"It's not as simple as don't use IE as a web browser. Outlook and Outlook Express use it. Quicken uses it. Any executable or VBscript could open an IE control and send an exploit to it."

Do I need to say what the solution to those problem are?

Don't use those products.

Turn off scripting.

If enough people do this, companies will stop using IE functions to open security holes in their products (provided of course that their customers tell them that's why they've stopped using their products.)

Re:XP only ?

[mcrbids]

Only on slashdot is an article that encourages business professionals to get the right equipment to do their job well and professionally modded as "flamebait"...