Microsoft Taking Longer to Fix Flaws

An anonymous reader writes "A look back at the last three years of security patches from Microsoft shows Redmond is taking at least 25 percent longer to issue patches for "critical" vulnerabilities, now averaging around 135 days to issue a fix. The exception appears to be with "full disclosure" flaws, for which Redmond issued fixes in an average of 46 days last year."

Comments

Re:Still too long, but you can take precautions.

[Trolling4Columbine]

Just so you know, I was going to mod your post up. However your inane use of the childish "M$" cliche prevented me. Grow up.

Amazing, just fucking amazing

[SmallFurryCreature]

I guess I am just to spoiled being on linux. The last one I was affected by was the openssl bug a year or two ago. Bug found to first patch was a few hours. Then I believe some others were discovered and I had to recompile 2 times in I think 2 days. MS 135 days.

And still MS apologists come up with excuse after excuse. Oh but MS got to make sure that what the patch doesn't destroy a thousand other things. Well a couple of items about that.

• Opensource is any different? They can just do a patch and think of all the software that uses it as "who gives a fuck"
• MS patches and updates are well known for not breaking old software. HA!
• If MS would seperate their code they would have to check a thousand sideeffects.
• MS should be big enough to have thousands of people dedicated to the task

Why am I so pissed? Because I am tired of explaining to windows users that yes while I do know a lot about computers I am not going to fix their fucking porn infested crap fest dell boxes. Only semi-attractive women can ask and they need to allow me to fuck them in the ass in return, being windows users they should be used to it.

What I find most amazing how oddly we deal with software bugs. Why on earth were not all windows machines patched to disable WMF completly the moment the exploit was discovered. Can't do that? Sorry but that is what happens in the real world.

If a problem is discovered with a real product an immidiate warning will be put out to stop using it and only then will people worry about possible work arounds. If the brakes on your cars were discovered to have a fatal bug would you want your car company to first test a patch and see how it effects every car in the world OR that they contact your ASP and tell you your brakes are untrustworthy and to stop driving your car?

The WMF idiocy showed that MS and its users still live in a dreamland. Frankly I found it all hilarious especially the people who had to reformat as they were infected. Remember you either run a unix or everyone else runs your machine.