encyclo - 10:24 pm on Jul 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

Guess what? The new version 5 of Windows Update is online, and it is starting to check product IDs for Windows XP - meaning if you're using a warez copy, you can't update. So MS would rather have unpatched machines spewing out spam than allowing everyone to update. Not using XP so don't care about Product IDs? Well, the security patches for IE6 which will be included in XP SP2 are showing no sign of being offered to users of older Windows versions.

Of course warez copies of Windows are a bad thing, but it just goes to show that Microsoft care more about sales than they do about security.

As for comparing a hacked BSD server with IE, it's quite laughable. Of course all systems have potential vulnerabilities, but IE is a fundamentally insecure product by design.

if you are so anti-Microsoft why do you use their products? And if you DON'T use their products, why do you care?

Because we have to use their products to test our sites in their shoddy excuse for a browser. Because our colleagues, friends and family use Microsoft products, because Microsoft's problem is the internet's problem, due to their dominance.

"Go Secure - Go Mozilla", as the message now occasionally says in the top right-hand corner of the WebmasterWorld site!