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Don't Use Internet Explorer

Submitted by wojo on Mon, 2006-09-25 03:41.

Nothing like this latest security hole explains why open-source software and Firefox are far superior to the massive companies like Microsoft. I'm not going to spend long explaining the details, but Microsoft is slow to react to this risk and it has now been exploited across thousands of websites. Hackers were able to sucessfully redirect all IE users for all websites hosted by one hosting company and spread the virus even farther. While, Firefox's security team and developers react immediately and can offer a fix within hours of a discovered security hole, Microsoft can take weeks, months, or longer. The IE risk is so great that third-party developers are offering patches, but of course IE is rejecting anything that doesn't come from in-house and advising their users to do the same.

Firefox Good. Internet Explorer Bad.

This is all standard for IE. Web developers are constantly dealing with IE's refusal to keep up and observe internationally recongnized browser standards. Microsoft does this in order to keep a monopoly on web browsing. Ask an designer or developer and they can tell you the woes of having to redesign everything to work properly in IE. The W3C (World-Wide Web Consortium) sets standards for how code that developers create is supposed to be read by a browser. Your browser is just a tool for reading that code. Yet without fail, IE ignores certain portions of the rules with every release. In so doing, they force all developers to develop with slightly different standards. Most have become adept at programming for both, but Microsoft banks on forcing developers to optimize sites for IE and, thus make it the best way to browse the web. So after this weekend's (and more to come I'm sure) attacks, how's that working out for you Microsoft? Not to good....