Usability/Usability humor
Saturday, February 16, 2002[10:44:58 AM]
Microsoft's recent Internet Explorer patches cause ie to crash on some websites built with Microsoft website software.
The obvious lesson is that it will take a *long, long* time before MS can fix their security problems. It took them two years to make a web browser as good as Netscape's, and that was much easier. It's easy to build a new product, especially when you can do it without regard for security (or budget). It's much harder to make secure software, and it is outrageously difficult to take software designed to be insecure, and try to patch security into it.
And remember, the insecurity of MS products was part of their approach to eliminating Netscape. (Think of ActiveX -- incorporating the OS into the browser -- and the ability to run viruses from the email client.)
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