Redmond pushes Firefox
Posted on October 5, 2004
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“The Unofficial Voice of the Microsoft IT Community” (you can tell they work with MS by the huge unweildy all-encompassing tag line) is also now pushing the switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox in Time to Dump IE?.
Now we’re beset by increasingly common—and dangerous—security vulnerabilities. We knew IE was integrated with Windows, but we didn’t have any idea how integrated it was. Even Microsoft doesn’t seem to have a firm grasp on IE’s internals, judging from the weeks it took to deliver an actual fix for the recent Download.Ject Trojan.
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Alternative browsers, while supporting plug-ins, provide absolutely no support for ActiveX, which from a security standpoint is one of Microsoft’s bigger mistakes.
Why do I keep flogging this horse? Because there are still Windows users out there who insist on using IE and it hurts my soul. But I try.