full-disclosure - 70 million computers are using Windows 98rightnow

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Message-ID: <44B7DD0C.6040500@sdf.lonestar.org>
Date: Fri Jul 14 19:06:17 2006
From: bkfsec at sdf.lonestar.org (bkfsec)
Subject: 70 million computers are
	using	Windows	98rightnow

Castigliola, Angelo wrote:

> significantly lowering risk and still enjoy the
>feature rich functionality that IE offers.
>
>  
>
I stopped reading here.  You're either joking, or trolling... because no 
sane person would make this statement.

Feature rich?

Man, are you all there mentally?  Do you even know what web standards are? 

The only "features" missing are ActiveX compatibility (even that can be 
solved with a plug-in, but I wouldn't recommend it).  Do you know how 
many sites I have to load in IE that I can't view in Firefox or 
Mozilla?  (media rich sites, no less) None.  Sure, there's the 
occasional site with a broken media plugin link (I'll happily point out 
that most of these sites don't work on a percentage of IE-based systems 
either, as they're coded poorly because brain-dead slobs think poor 
coding and IE-only compatability means "feature rich") but there's 
always a better site to go to that isn't riddled with spyware or crappy 
code.  Not letting people view those sites is doing them a favor.  
Over-permissiveness is not a virtue or we'd all be marrying prostitutes.

You have to be joking.  Either that or you read that off the back of a 
pamphlet for a web development training company. 

             -bkfsec