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Re: [News] Internet Explorer 7 is Spyware

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> __/ [ BearItAll ] on Saturday 02 September 2006 08:58 \__
> 
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> Just worth clarifying this.
>>> 
>>> Not only does it send Microsoft a list of pages you visit, but it also
>>> enables Microsoft to extend its monopoly and use it for search
>>> technologies.
>>> 
>>> http://tinyurl.com/ezeey
>>> 
>>> No wonder Internet Explorer 7 was made a high priority update. Security?
>>> Security my ass. They just want to spy on every Web surfer.
>> 
>> It just occured to me reading this and Thumper's post. I wonder if it is
>> valid to buy a lot of XP software to put into the company safe so that
>> for the next few years companies can ignore the higher cost of Vista
>> machines?
>> 
>> As far as I know there isn't a 'Use By Date' on software boxes.
>> 
>> If that is valid, then could buy a few MS Office boxes too.
>> 
>> It isn't as if there is anything worth having in the new versions so no
>> real need to go to the extra costs to run them.
> 
> The only snag I can think of is neglect of old versions of Windows, e.g.
> 2000 which makes a good candidate (ME is no longer supported). The
> machines that run these O/Sen would then need to be replaced and, as of
> last year, half of all US businesses still used Windows 2000.
> 
> In reality, thanks to Linux, it is improbable. But what if Microsoft
> continued to make its O/S poor on security (it's ineviable and it's not a
> matter of will, just inability due to bad state of the code). It could
> spend half of that one billion dollar Vista marketing budget on forcing
> people to think that Vista (the third XP service pack) will actually add
> security. Let's wait to see how the cattle reacts to brainwash.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Roy
> 

It doesn't actually matter if MS still support the OS that you have. It
doesn't suddenly stop working, you just stop getting the pop ups about
updates. Bit of a relief I suspect :)



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