MS's engineers claim the version of IE included with SP2 as basically a completely new browser, but their own security team has said, behind closed doors, that if you want to browse securely...don't use IE. So, who to believe? I do think the latest release is a step in the right direction, though the hesitation to recommend it that I've seen on MS employee's faces makes me wonder just how big of a step that was.

Is MS playing the security catch-up game these days? Certainly, they've admitted it themselves. Is that so suprising that we need an article to tell us about it? Probably not, but that's just my opinion.

/Jay

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