09-26-2004, 08:26 PM
Archon_Wing,Sep 26 2004, 08:04 PM Wrote:They can't do that for long. Not too long ago, they extended support for Windows 98. With so many computers still running that, it will cause MS to look really bad when the next security exploit comes along (in 5 seconds)
Hey Archon Wing,
This was hashed over on Slashdot a couple of days ago. What they appear to be saying is that they will not release security enhancements for anything other that IE on XP. That includes things like the new firewall that was just released.
They should still issue critical updates for IE on older versions of windows as long as they are supported. They almost have to, if they still want to pretend that IE is an integral part of the OS. Stupid US Dept. of Justice - grrr....
That said, I switched to Mozilla several years ago at home (well before Firefox came out), and got all of the general use computers at my lab switched to Firefox over the last couple months. IE gets used for windows update only.
One of these days, I should ugrade my home machines to FireFox - my Mozilla is still v1.2.1, but it keeps plugging along, working better than the newest IE.
-V-