Gates is a fool. Open source software

is better in every possible way.

I suggest mozila browser for those of you

still using IE. I still use IE every once in

a while you can make it stonger by doing this.

Setup active-x and java to ask on every use.

This is not for everyone. Before switching

to mozilla i had this setup and i got very

acustom to it but it will ask you every single

time java/active-x is to be used on a page.

A lot of sites use one or both. But it makes

your viewing very safe because you have a lot

of control. But almost no one else could use

my computer because the question box would

bug them to death. Anyway 100days sounds

very long to me thats over 3months. The only

company i know that takes that long is

microsoft, (There getting better, A little)

But i remember when microsoft had a flaw in

IE with the gopher protocol (old text only)

and they suggested to disable it. if i remember

they did put out a patch but it took forever

and in newer relases they droped support for

good. you can still find it in the proxy

section of the browser options but it dose

not work. just goes to show if its too hard

they'll just drop it rather then fix it.

they also drop support for some of there

products still in wide use in order to get

you to upgrade. windows nt4 (still very much

in use) and older copies of office. they

would rather let there users get tagged by

flaws and worms then take a little extra

time patch them seeing as most flaws found

in 2k,xp go back to NT4.

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