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mobrien_12:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6082307.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed


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Microsoft will not fix a serious flaw in Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition because a patch could break other applications.

The security bug relates to Windows Explorer and could let an intruder commandeer a vulnerable PC, Microsoft warned in April. The software maker has made fixes available for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000, but it has found that eliminating the vulnerability in Windows 98 and ME is "not feasible," it said.

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Yeah... right, not feasible.  Take some of that billions of reserve money and do your freaking jobs.

Orethrius:
Just substitute "profitable" for "feasible" in that statement and you'll get the generic MS mindset.  Hell, do that for ANY of their releases.

Calum:
perhaps it really isn't feasible due to poor system design in the first place?

they are really saying that their win32 (not NT) based systems are shit, and considering they were the standard for 5 to 7 years, that's pretty appalling. how much money do you think microsoft made from windows 95. 98 and ME? for a system this poor that serious security vulnerabilities cannot be fixed without making the system unusably unstable?

and nobody cares! none of the windoids ask for their money back or anything, they just put up with it!

Aloone_Jonez:
Since they're planning on killing support for Windows 98 next month I don't really blame them for not being arsed to fix it, that said they should either support something or not, not just do a half arsed job of supporting something which is what they do anyway.

Jack2000:
i wonder if they will abondon 98 in full
as in "relese source and let the open comunity to picker  on it "

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