Anonymous

Fareham, Hants. UK

Retired FAA Aircraft Artificer/teacher/comp' prog/comp' tech' support/comp' tutor

So what are Microsoft patching?

I have not as yet, because of stability concerns which make life hard to back -up, installed SP2 on a machine (which I cannot afford to have go down completely right now).

Things are such a mess that I am confused. Heaven help all the average population who cannot understand the basics.

Most of us have other lives to try and lead besides trawling the Microsoft sites for info on fix compatability. Here is the rub and the nub of why it is becoming increasiongly clear that MS products can never be made secure - not in their current incarnations anyway.

And no Microsoft this is not a cue to use pronmises of a future product ('Longhorn'?) being secure just to create a new cash cow.

Microsoft had their chance. They have failed IMHO so I am actively exploring Linux.

It is no good them bleating about others advising about new found security holes (recent buffer overun) are you seriolusly expecting us to believe that you knew nothing about this and were keeping it quiet hoping that it would just go away.

Besides , they wanted the major slice of the cake, they cannot blame anybody but themselves if it is their marketing and development philosophies that has caused the majority of issues to arrise in the first instance.