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Message-ID: <20040710174327.75607.qmail@web20223.mail.yahoo.com>
From: visitbipin at yahoo.com (bipin gautam)
Subject: Microsoft Faces Angry IE Users' Questions
> but well over two years ago now Billy Boy went
> public and told the
> world that security is now more important than
> features. Of course,
> the skeptical part of the world did not believe that
> Billy really mean
> it and the skeptical part of the world has been
> proven right for more
> than two years as almost no-one at Microsoft has
> actually acted in line
> with that edict, but according to Bill's public
> prognostications a
> softie cannot validly say any more "it might break
> something on some
> obscure site" as a reason (or worse, an excuse) for
> not fixing some
> glaring security flaw...
>
If M$ wan't to put new features..... I believe; that
ain't bad, just a kind of evolution. BUT, the worst
thing about M$ is IT FORCES THE USERS to a high degree
TO USE FEATURES that it puts in its product even
while the user don't want to.....
Such practice is sure to repeal a security concious
user away from M$ products. At-lest M$ should have an
option to let users choose; whether they wanna use a
particular feature or remove it.
This will certainly reduce a considerable amount of
attack. The one reason linux is comparatively secure
is, eg: the user has option to choose between
lynx/links/mozilla/opera... as per their taste and
requirememt. This will ceratinly reduce/slow-down any
'mass attack' to a greater degree.
bipin
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