The insecurities of Internet Explorer are not because of the bad programming jobs at Microsoft, it's because of the fact it's the most used browser in the world (because its the only one installed by default in Windows). People who create virus' and exploit security holes will put most of their effort into hacking Internet Explorer because there are so many people who use it. If Microsoft were to switch over to Mozilla Firefox, these malicious programmers would also begin exploiting Firefox. While we all brag about our security because we use Firefox, the safety of Firefox would disapeer if Microsoft adopted it for their main webrowser in Windows.
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The insecurities of Internet Explorer are not because of the bad programming jobs at Microsoft, it's because of the fact it's the most used browser in the world (because its the only one installed by default in Windows). People who create virus' and exploit security holes will put most of their effort into hacking Internet Explorer because there are so many people who use it. If Microsoft were to switch over to Mozilla Firefox, these malicious programmers would also begin exploiting Firefox. While we all brag about our security because we use Firefox, the safety of Firefox would disapeer if Microsoft adopted it for their main webrowser in Windows.
-Nan0click