Quote: "That issue has been fixed in version 1.0 Preview Release."
Funny, cause I use Release 1.0; it automatically updated when released, and it STILL isn't fixxed.
Quote: "IE has too many security holes"
Mozilla has just as many, what's worse is Mozillas are completely open for any tom, dick or harry to see!
Although it would help if Microsoft didn't publically display new potencial security issues!
Quote: "and hwy does it have to be packaged wiht osmehting u never see it alone by it self it always cxomes with a serice pack or outlook or something"
I can't even decrypt that, and usually i'm pretty good with reading jibberish.
Should I assume this is about the security updates for IE, or the Toolbar?
Internet Explorer is free to download ON IT'S OWN. It will also update itself ON IT'S OWN. The Toolbar is an upgrade, and the official one from Microsoft; this is so that it doesn't conflict with you using OTHERs Toolbars which have similar features.
They're not novel, Alta-Vista has been providing a Toolbar for pop-up blocking since IE 5.0 (long before Mozilla/Netscape ever did it!)
Quote: "and why not opensource like mozillia are thye tryign to hide something i mean if the wnderful OS of linux can be open source why cant crappy ie
and oen more thing why isnt it up to date with html 4 and css are they too lazy or what"
OpenSource is good, when your using it to enhance upon a set standard. However in order to keep security, you MUST make sure the source is not freely available for the changes you have made to protect it.
Any half-decent hacker can break into any Linux based operating system in minutes. Microsoft Windows requires research to find a security hole to take advantage of and HOPE that the end user hasn't patched yet, or there isn't a patch yet.
A professional Security Consultant 'Hacker' has gone on record to say that without knowing where to look, it is close to impossible to hack Windows.
although something similar could be said about Linux, there are actually more ways to get around the protection. Linux is built to keep going no matter what breaks, a bit like the Honda C90; it could be falling apart at the seems but still run happily.
This is good if you need an almost unbreakable OS, problem is someone externally can access the system, monitor input calls, wait for someone with security to access, get in, edit what they need to, get out.
Try that with Windows, it'll corrupt the installation. It is a deliberate measure to prevent just such an attack.. it means for Windows a Hacker MUST do his homework first, there are just no two ways around it.
Quote: "I'm sure linus isn't a multibazillionaire either.."
Linux was never created to make money, it was created to provide a Unix-Based Standardised Operating System.
Windows has something that the other OSs just don't have. Standardisation between version for interoperating; this actually extends to other OS like Linux/Unix/MacOS/OS2. Linus' task was to provide this for the Unix community.
What happens? the Linux community takes something which SHOULD'VE standardised them, and everyone creates thier own version.. making what Linux did a decade ago a waste of bloody time.
If you ever read his website you'll see he personally hates the Linux communities; simply because they've bastardised what he created for thier own personal gains and vendettas against other operating systems.
It was never intended to make money at all, but provide a solution like what IBM & Novell have gone on to provide; Standardised Unix.
Just think, if everyone else has actually realised this 10years ago, perhaps Linux would be playing a much bigger role today.
But people generally are selfish idiots, rather than thinking of the community they wanted to show off and create thier 'own' variation. Sort of defeats the whole community spirit, eh?
This is why I firmly stand by my statment that Linux is the kids version of Unix.
