Guess what?

[Grinnin Reaper]

A new vulnerability for IE. SPAMhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25590.html

[Keefe]

Wow, imagine that. SPAMIe is like swiss cheese. SPAMMicrosoft should just fix their damn crap!

[Grinnin Reaper]

They should just build it right the first time. SPAMIf they actually built something from scratch instead of adding on it would be diffrent. SPAMIf you live in a mobile home and add a room, SPAMthen add another, and keep going you have a castle that has a cheap ass aluminum door with a broken handle on the back. SPAMWTF?? SPAMSometimes you just gotta scrap it and start from scratch. SPAMDon't bring over anything but experience. SPAM

[wizbones]

Amen

[vee_ess]

Exactly. You need a good foundation for anything and everything. Microsoft either doesn't realize that or just uses it as a way to make you upgrade. I, personally, am not sure which.

[Omega]

If Microsoft started something from scratch, that'd be significantly worse than their software's current state. They've been working on perfecting Windows for about 10 years now, and Internet Explorer for slightly less. If they've been spending that much time improving something, think of how bad their brand new one would be.

Also, terribly huge risks are involved when a company totally discontinues a product, and moves in another direction. Although security holes do exist, and will continue to be found, this inevasible occurrence still leaves Microsoft's software ranking #1 in numerous fields. Additionally, you're not obligated to use Internet Explorer, or Windows at all.

Microsoft does "fix their damn crap," but it's a continuing process. They do what they can to fix problems, as well as improve performance, usability, functionality, and as many other aspects as they have determined will boost sales. If indeed their product was significantly inferior to a margin where it held any true impact on the end-user, simply stated, it wouldn't be used any more.

[Grinnin Reaper]

No other industry I know allows this type of crap. SPAMThe car industry continues to ditch old styles and update (not every year but on somewhat of a schedule for some companies). SPAMYou don't continue to remodel a home for years, eventually you level and start over. SPAMIf you have a good product you can only modify it so long till you make it a bad product. SPAMIf you start with crap it just goes downhill faster. Design teams leave and the new ones don't always have a full understanding of the prior teams works. SPAMIt happens everywhere I've seen. SPAMYou can't just keep adding on without some major reworking and usually a redesign to incorparate the new features and functionality. SPAMIf Microsoft started something from scratch, that'd be significantly worse than their software's current state SPAMThat doesn't make it allright to release a new version every year, call it new and improved, and charge twice as much. SPAMTake the time to develope one good product and release it when it's ready. SPAMAdditionally, you're not obligated to use Internet Explorer, or Windows at all.
SPAMNo but by shear number of users they have the largest installed base and almost all applications are detailed to their software. SPAMLinux is getting better but it's still not a true competitor no matter how much we want it to be. SPAMThey have almost made themselves the industry standard and I think it needs to be set higher. SPAMIn the day's of Dos when software went to market it had to work right. SPAMIf it didn't the product failed and could take the whole company out with it. SPAMNow after microsoft decided to make patching software part of life everyone does it. SPAMSome games are nearly non-functional at realease and that in not acceptable. SPAMAsk anyone how win2k runs without sp1, SPAMask anyone running me at all. SPAMSoftware manufactures didn't have as many variables in the day. SPAMYou had only so much hardware and you made it run in dos. SPAMLife was good. SPAMBut everyone believes that hot-fixes and patchs are the answer. SPAMNO SPAMthe answer is don't rush testing. SPAMScrew the release date. SPAMJust make it work right when I get it. SPAMThen I'll be a happy customer and come back for more on my own. SPAM