2 edits | Damn microsoft Are we going to have to wait a month to get this update now? They had better post a fix asap. Also unchecking show friendly URLs doesn't work because mine was not checked and it only shows www.symantec.com. God damn it, why is this not patched yet. You'd think since microsoft is the only idiots with their source code, they could make a patch it in a matter of an hour or so. There are always going to be exploits, but damn you'd think they'd have enough sense to patch them quick. Also as for the people who never run windows update, yet again another reason why they suck. Now we are going to here tons of people bitching about being scammed and try to blame microsoft even though they have never ran one update ever. |
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2 edits | Have you checked Windoze Update?... a patch came out today... for XP anyway... 98 is semi but soon to be TOTALLY on the skids support wise.
Heck even car makers have to keep parts for 10 year... but not Microshaft... Bill G isn't the richest guy in the world for caring about customers!!
Though after a lot of bad press is at least doing OK at caring about the rest of the world so long as he can still screw the customers every two years to pay for it 
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I kind of understand why patching is so slow. They have knitted the browser system so deeply into the operating system that everything is massively inter-twingled. Add to that the variety of (variations on vanilla) flavors of windows OS out there, and you have one scary update project for almost any conceivable change.
Consider the PR costs of rolling out a patch that massively broke something else.
Compare that to mozilla where a patch and new build can be out immediately and a wild bunch will test it on a variety of different configs, for free. Plus, when you make software that has to run on several different OS (windows,linux,solaris etc), you force a kind of abstraction from the machine/OS onto the programmers (so save their sanity), that must mean a lot less hassle in general. |
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kudos:1 | And thats a bad thing????
BG did it to himself.... OK he beat the anti trust rap... but now is stuck with something they may NEVER work right... and meanwhile with every new PC is sucking the uninformed into his self created morass.
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I just ran windows update about 6 hours ago and it still spoofs the url. I checked again before posting my previous comment and no new updates. And why would patching be slow, even if you have to do it in a horribly coded way, give us something really fast. Then worry about making it look good later, and make another patch.
How hard is it to add a little button In tools>advance that says "Display full URL" and by default have it clicked? |
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vfpguyAlias Dotnetguy
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said by insomniac84:
Are we going to have to wait a month to get this update now? They had better post a fix asap.... You'd think since microsoft is the only idiots with their source code, they could make a patch it in a matter of an hour or so.
It's not that simple any more. Because of the way IE is intertwined into the OS many other vendors have leveraged IE functionality into their products. A major breakage of IE by a rushed patched could break much more functionality than just browsing web sites.
The Outlook Today pages in Outlook and Outlook Express are HTML rendered with the IE engine.
Many of the windows in QuickBooks and probably Quicken are also HTML rendered with IE.
Online help in almost all modern Windows programs is a compiled HTML file which uses the IE engine.
What I've noticed is just about any Windows app that has an interface that "looks like a web page" probably is. And quite a lot of them don't trap a right click, which is the dead giveaway.
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