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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."
When was Micro$oft accountable to anyone for anything they ever developed, marketed and forced on their customers? Here's their standard EULA for every shoddy piece of crap they release (including shoddy patches to the shoddy crap): "Microsoft and its suppliers provide the Software and support services (if any) AS IS AND WITH ALL FAULTS, and hereby disclaim all other warranties and conditions, whether express, implied or statutory, including, but not limited to, any (if any) implied warranties, duties or conditions of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, of reliability or availability, of accuracy or completeness of responses, of results, of workmanlike effort, of lack of viruses, and of lack of negligence, all with regard to the Software, and the provision of or failure to provide support or other services, information, software, and related content through the Software or otherwise arising out of the use of the Software. " NOTE: no warranty, no support, might not be fit for *ANY* purpose, etc
M$ accountable???? Are you nuts?????