Why Can't Microsoft Just Patch Everything?

paneraboy writes "If smaller software companies can patch all of their bugs serious or minor, ZDNet's George Ou asks, why can't Microsoft -- with its massive army of programmers and massive budget -- patch all of its vulnerabilities? Had Microsoft fixed a low risk browser vulnerability six months ago, perhaps we could have avoided last week's zero-day exploit. Currently, more than two dozen Windows XP issues remain unpatched. Ou thinks Microsoft ought to fix them all." From the article: "Almost 4 years after the launch of Trustworthy Computing, I found myself wondering why am I staying up till 4:00 AM to deliver an emergency set of instructions (Home and Enterprise) to my readers because Microsoft felt it unnecessary to patch a flaw six months ago that was originally low risk but mutated in to something extremely dangerous."

Comments

Re:Seems like some people don't understand coding

[nutrock69]

- 2. Give it a snappy name - words ending in an "x" always sound cool.

I got one! How about Windows-X?

As a bonus, it will give MS the perfect opportunity to sue x-windows into oblivion for having a similar name well before MS took it!!! :)

Re:patch the leaky boat

[jonfelder]

There has got to be room in this metaphor somewhere for pirates.

Aaarrrr matey!