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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: tr_one on 14 September 2002, 03:29

Title: Is this really a suprise?
Post by: tr_one on 14 September 2002, 03:29
Microsoft Flaw May Allow File Theft (http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=business&cat=microsoft_news)

"The company said it will definitely repair the problem only for owners of the most recent versions of the software.

That decision ? still left largely up in the air by Microsoft engineers ? may leave millions of users of Word 97 without a fix. All versions of Word omare susceptible to the flaw, but the problem is most severe in Word 97."

How could M$ do that to the faithful customers?
Title: Is this really a suprise?
Post by: mobrien_12 on 14 September 2002, 04:19
quote:
Originally posted by tr_one:
How could M$ do that to the faithful customers?


Probably because they don't give a crap about customers who don't upgrade their stuff every time something changes.
Title: Is this really a suprise?
Post by: Calum on 14 September 2002, 11:31
well if they did not "upgrade" to office 2002 when they were commanded to then they are hardly loyal customers. go and look up 'loyal' in a dictionary (preferably the built in one in Microsoft word) and you'll see that the new defenition means someone who will fork out full price for a new copy of an office suite they already have every two years.
Title: Is this really a suprise?
Post by: tr_one on 14 September 2002, 12:47
Now hold on there. There IS a way to "support" loyalty and faithfulness in customers.


(Ooo, I guess I shouldn't link to that information.) ;)

a way to "help" the customers stay faithful. for two years now.
Title: Is this really a suprise?
Post by: Refalm on 14 September 2002, 15:44
Mozilla had a file theft flaw too... after someone discovered it, it was patched in one week!.

Now let's compare:

Bugfix Microsoft: three years  :mad:  (because I'm forced to use Word 2000 at school, and I don't like people spying on me)

Bugfix OpenSource community: one week  (http://smile.gif)  (yeah, thank God I use a real browser at home, because I'm forced to be tortured by Internet Explorer at school)
Title: Is this really a suprise?
Post by: foobar on 14 September 2002, 22:21
quote:
Originally posted by Refalm:
(yeah, thank God I use a real browser at home, because I'm forced to be tortured by Internet Explorer at school)


Yup, same story at my place. Mozilla at home, IE at school. Even our webmaster (he made the Dutch site www.jfc.nl) (http://www.jfc.nl)) uses mozilla ...
Title: Is this really a suprise?
Post by: lazygamer on 15 September 2002, 06:42
Well... I don't think I've ever been hacked. I don't visit chatrooms, except for very tight knit game communities or scheduled meetings. I mainly use message boards, surely message boards are highly secure for the end user?(if not, they are 10 times better then IRC)

Im also not an actual 1337 h4x0r, so I don't have people getting pissed off at me and counter-hacking. Finally, I don't really make it my mission to piss people off.

Due to all this, I've had an amazingly virus free and hack free net life.  (http://smile.gif)
Title: Is this really a suprise?
Post by: Kat on 16 September 2002, 06:43
Heh, good thing i upgraded to OpenOffice...
I don't think IRC is unsafe, i have used it for years without any problems. Just use common sense. In fact, the only virus i have ever gotten was from a website. Thanks to Mozilla, that won't happen again.  (http://smile.gif)