First thing...i'm a little tired of everyone bashing Microsoft so badly...they may not be a perfect company, but their visions and intentions are usually for the better...the problem isn't them so much...the problem is this world is filled with A-holes who have nothing better to do than try to exploit someone elses creations/products...these "hackers"...who instead of using their programming knowledge for the better of the world...try to take the easy route to steal credit card numbers or just screw up hard working people's computers for pure enjoyment...the reason microsoft is the most vulnerable is because they have the most users...of course some new browser that has not been around long and isn't used by 90% of web user's isn't likely to have attacks...there's no benefit in hacks trying to pick apart that software...no, they want to affect more people when they strike...and who has more customers than microsoft...people do things on the internet that they would never do in person...people that would never walk into a CD store and try to run out with a bunch of free CD's will download free songs off the internet all day and all night and don't see the difference...although you might argue about kazaa vs. the radio or something like that, the point is it comes down to computer ethics...you all make it sound like Microsoft is SOOOOO evil and they purposely try to make their code easily exploitable...that's just silly....they pour millions into software writing...they have many, many code writers and code checkers working together...that's a tough task to do right there...but instead they get bashed by people that either know nothing about writing software, in whatever language, or by people who have maybe written a program with 1/1000000 the lines of code and intricacy of Microsoft's Windows OS...sure it's not perfect...but that's the American way....make a buck...make a buck...make a buck....they're going to add new features, they're going to try to speed things up and make things run more fluidly...maybe all the microsoft bashers in the world need to spend their forum writing time more wisely...like trying to educate people on computer ethics...or trying to inform these "joe schmoes" how to avoid these trojans and virus's...since you all are the "experts" that you say you are...then you should be helping the computer illiterate...and as far as the person that said to design the software to not be suseptable to a list of bugs...maybe Microsoft could take more time to get some things right...but everyone complains as soon as they push their new OS back a little because they are IMPATIENT...if you have a problem with it, it's not hard to become a Microsoft beta tester and let them know of bugs in their beta releases...people are more worried about benchmarking and features though....that's why they want to pack them with features...look at any longhorn review you have ever seen...they all talk 99% about features....new file systems...new gui's...etc....and they sometimes mention that something wasn't working properly...yet...and it's a beta...but everyone wants to know what "features" are different about Longhorn than XP...what's new...then when Microsoft delivers on that front...40% of the people complain and complain...20% try to find exploits and the rest are the joe schmoe's and decent people that are trying to use their computers for the powers of good...what would you say if Microsoft's next OS shipped sometime soon...and when you got it it was exactly the same as XP except they made it hackproof...inpenetrable to virus's and attacks...uncrashable...(which is unlikely btw, that ANY company could pull that one off) but all you whiners would do is whine that it's not more advanced than XP...MS didn't give you any new features...whine whine whine whine whine...and while we're on the subjects of MAC OS and LINUX...let's pretend that one of those systems crushed MS out of the OS business...and since they are unlikely to go bankrupt any time soon...they'd probably survive in different markets somehow, they do have billions, but what makes you all think that the evil computerdoers of the world wouldn't suddenly start trying to find ways of exploiting other OS's...believe me they would...i am aware there is no way to post a message like this without a slew of replies, and that's fine...everyone's entitled to their opinions....it just seems to me that Microsoft does not intentionally try to make ther software be easy to attack by rogue programmers...but more the fact that this world is full of f*cked up people who only want to make other people's lives miserable...

A very good and well thought out reply

CountMackulaHPT: How about some juditious placement of whitespace in your future posts? Maybe it'll make it easier to read :=).

I think people bash Microsoft because it is currently fashionable, and because they don't like monopolies that overprice their products to a captive market. There is no getting away from the fact that Windows XP is still the best balanced OS available in terms of usability and features. Once Microsoft shake off the legacy of having to run old 16 bit code, then things will improve significantly. Now that .NET is here, and Longhorn is being built on .NET (as are future Microsoft products) then we should see a huge leap forward in terms of security and stability. You can't make major advancements overnight, but with security being such a hot topic of late (it wasn't a few years ago), you can bet that future Microsoft products will be worth the wait.

CountMackulaHPT, both the standard PPC, x86, and x64 architectures all have something in common: the Enter key. It is used to facilitate use of the paragraph, which is very efficient in using line breaks to better organize large blocks of text, which you seem to be keen on using. It thus assists in more efficient lecturing of the information presented.

Please do not neglect this tool in the future, because as you can see it expedites better understanding and as thus contributes more to general information provided in this magnificent library of knowledge we have here now.

you've put me in my place CountMackulaHPT, a good read, and a good point.

Sometimes all you need is a different perspective.

Vehementi seems to have taken some english courses or something It's good to see you writing nice stuff, not like in IRC hehehe.

Apparently, even Microsoft's own online magazine Slate is bashing Internet Explorer in favor of Mozilla Firefox.

"No matter how well they had protected themselves against viruses, spyware, and everything else in the past, they were still vulnerable to yet another flaw in Microsoft's browser."

http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152/

I am sure Microsoft will get their act together eventually, however. In the mean time, I am suspicious.

Why not blame the construction company that built you a house with lockable bulletproof windows.. that can be lifted off the wall by using convenient handles on the outside?

And please do use the "paragraphs". They were invented some centuries ago I believe and there are no pending MS patents AFAIK

I think all of you need to shut up and listen to me:

IE is buggy as hell and Microsoft are evil, OK ?