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Several Critical MSIE Flaws Uncovered
An anonymous reader writes "Several flaws have been uncovered by security firm eEye in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The flaws allow remote compromise of computers running Windows Operating Systems and affect IE, Outlook and possibly other MS software. With the next MS Windows security bulletin release scheduled for June 14, 2005 news sources are reporting that in comparison with the Mozilla Foundation's prompt fix for the recently reported Mozilla 1.0.3 vulnerabilities MS appear to be leaving a large window for the possible malicious exploitation of these flaws."
Sure there was, it's still news.
...has probibly done a lot of work from the ground up on it with security spacifically in mind.
Yeah, I agree that'll surely work. After all MS is the company who successfully pulled off a complete rework with security in mind with IE6, Windows XP and a lot of other programs. No more security issues there! Oh wait... Never mind.
FireFox is NOT going to be killed by IE7.
First of all, it's probably still going to be faster because MS is incapable of writing anything but bloated featuritis-devastated code.
Second, FireFox will still be more standards-based as MS as already said they don't want to support the latest CSS version.
Third, FireFox is still OSS and that will matter to everybody to whom it DOES matter.
My projection is that the idiots who use MS will continue to do so, and those who don't trust MS will continue to download FF - though perhaps not at the same rate.
By end of 2005, I still suspect FF will have been downloaded at least 100 million times and have 8-15% of the browser market - which is remarkable when you consider that Netscape, Opera and the rest only achieved 3% of the market over the last five years.
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It doesn't take a great genius to discover that all Microsoft software is completely and utterly defective down to its very core, while software made under F/OSS methods is generally quite good, solid, and sound. Perhaps some features aren't implemented in F/OSS which exist in Microsoft's trash, but those features will eventually become available, and in the meantime, it is much safer to compute with F/OSS.
For years, Microsoft deliberately created defective software in order to continuously sell upgrade after upgrade. But today, people are waking up to Microsoft's defective business models and realizing that they have been the victim of Microsoft for many years. Therefore, Microsoft is going to lose. Day after day, more users switch away from Microsoft's garbage. And say what you will, but Microsoft will lose eventually, and they will go out of business. There is nothing they can do about this now. No matter how hard they try. No matter what Longtooth does when it comes out, if it ever comes out. And guess what, no matter what they do, Longtooth will still be a very extremely defective and insecure piece of trash software. And that makes me glad. Because I hate Microsoft.
This isnt 'news for nerds', in any sense of the word. It is neither news (in the same way that 'The sun rose again today' would not be considered news), nor anything a self-respecting 'nerd' would consider interesting.
I just assume that new holes in IE will be found daily, if not more often. I dont use IE, or any other MS software, so I don't consider it terribly important.
Anyone in the field still using IE
is either a complete moron or a brainwashed MS-apologist (or a blackhat 'using' it on other peoples machines).