"With help from IBM, Microsoft has patched a critical Windows vulnerability that flew under the radar for nearly two decades. The bug has existed in every version of Windows since Windows 95, and would have allowed an attacker to run code remotely when the user visits a malicious website."
You'd think they would pay some attention to fixing ancient bugs in their crapware instead of foisting Windows 10 on us.
Yes and they would gain respect if they did it for so called unsupported software as well.
Brian
You'd think they'd wake up one day, and, realising that Windows is such s**te, immediately cease it and start recommending other OSes.
Sorry, are they forcing you to buy it in some way?
It was only earlier this year that official support for XP ended - so you can be fairly sure you'll have plenty time before 'forced' to use Win10.
Eh? Has hell frozen over? What has sparked this fanciful optimism in the newsgroup today?
Of COURSE the gouging bastards are going to neglect all their old errors, do their best to dissuade us from using older versions of their software, and do their best to persuade us that their next money-making scam is the best thing since pre-masticated vindaloo -- that's what makes business profitable.
Tim Streater scribbled
Yawn. Time to play another record.
Indeed.
After being a die hard linux+ XFCE4 (window manager) user for years I finally reinstalled Mint 17.1 and decided to give KDE4 a bash (I used to hate KDE for being fat and slow - not really a problem on modern hardware).
By god, it is a thing of sheer beauty now I've themed it and added a couple of my favourite fonts.
Everything works with one exception[1] and it's both 10x prettier than any version of Windows, 2x prettier than even MacOSX (and being pretty is what MacOSX is about) and a damn sight faster than both.
Even has pretty wobbling-jelly window animations like MacOSX (obviously configurable!)
[1] Multi monitor support - works find except it has no auto-detection-fu - so I have some menu items with my common layouts in, scripted with xrandr and click those. I guess I could hook those scripts into udev.I know it's late coming, but I think Linux really has matured nicely - it's faster, more reliable (usually has been) and now truly prettier than all the competition.
NB this is Mint - Ubuntu and DeadRat seem intent on following the MS model of constant shaftage for no good reason (cough systemd, wayland etc)
If only MS could just polish their turd instead instead of reinventing everything. TBF that is what MacOSX seems to do but as I'm not a Mac user, I cannot be sure. I do noticed all my colleagues Macbooks run like dogs though...
The one thing that MS have actually managed to avoid doing over the years is reinventing stuff. They nail a different GUI on top but much of the fundamentals are the same as they were in 95. There's a lot of bits I wish they would tinker with (multiple mouse support so trackpads can have a different speed to the rodent) but the ability to run many bits of s/w from the 90s without really trying is worth something.
MacOS OTOH from my little experience, does seem to do things that screw over users who aren't bang up to date.
I have certainly found that with my only ever iPhone. It works (3G model IIRC) but it is rendered useless because nothing will install on the no-longer updated iOS and the stupid Apple app store is too poorly designed to offer out of date but compatible apps.
At least with Android, I could slap CyanogenMod on it when it's out of support.
So M$ take about three months to fix it when they are told about it..
Linux takes six months to fix a bug, then Ubuntu reintroduces the same bug a few months later and fixes it after a year. And the fix doesn't fix the problem anyway it only corrects the code that produced bad security keys and doesn't stop people using the old bad keys that are already out there.
So who is the worst? And which OS do you think does it any better?
Indeed. I think myself they should refund everybody who's ever bought a copy of Windows either retail or in an OEm bundle. Not only that but they should be forced to pay interest on the amount paid from the time of purchase, along witrh a letter of apology personally signed by Bill Gates, along with free counselling if required.
As Gates has always stated that it was his ambition to get a copy of Windows running on every desktop, it looks like he'll have to pay just about everyone. So no proof of purchase will be required.
michael adams
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Respect doesn't generate income.
And ever since some judge in the USA ruled on a case about withholding profits from shareholders, making a profit has become a legal duty.
Have a good day,
Well I dunno about Ubuntu, but the distro I use fixes bugs pretty rapidly, especially vulnerabilities.
GNU/Linux, by a long shot. MS is notorious for covering up bugs &/or ignoring them. They rely on being /told/ about them, blackhat crackers may find them & if possible, exploit them. MS doesn't know until something bad happens. They've done it before, they'll do it again.
Linux (Wine) will run lots of old Windows stuff too. :-)
I am a pragmatist. The concept of windows was a good one. The problem is that the hardware its built around and the need for compatibility between software running on different versions has created a monster to some extent, that is held back technologically while needing to sell in numbers tocreate the profit. The old addage of if I were going there, I'd not start from here comes to mind. Perhaps its time to have two lines. One based around what is really possible in modern hardware, and the other for those who need the continuity of existing systems. Brian
Actually its a lot easier than that. Install linux, and run winders in a virtual box for the few legacy apps you have that simply must have winders.
Um...the article cited is from November 2014, and it says the bug was found in April 2014. Why is this an issue now?
and it makes it very easy to get a complete system backup. Your entire system drive (probably C:) is one file on the host system.
I'm now doing that for the Windows 7 system I use regularly.
Supposedly, some versions of Windows won't work on a VM (MS trying to extract more money?).
for EACH one of:
3.1 95 98 (upgrade) 98SE ME2000 XP Vista (with new PC)
7 8 10 (not yet)
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