You seem to be deriding the fact that M$ are releasing 6 critical patches?

It would certainly be worse if they just ignored the issue and pretended everything was OK. At least this is a step in the right direction.

And before you say "it shouldn't need security patches at all" just bear in mind that nothing is perfect!

Looks like bare facts to me, where's the derision?

Well Paul it says, amongst other things "At least one of the critical vulnerabilities involves Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista, both of which were conceived under new and highly vaunted development rigors designed to produce more secure products"

Which could well be factual, but nevertheless I think a point relating the two facts "Security holes exist" and "Microsoft's highly vaunted security claims about its products" could be being made even if it's not spelt out in large red flashing letters saying "WE'RE MAKING A POINT HERE" :)

Subtle. But by design. Not the least because then "I only see facts where's the derision?" is a defence.

But, if the intent were to just list facts then we may as well read MS or CERN's terse security documents rather than an online tech site like the register [or in other words, if the writer wasn't making points, then they need a writer that does]

I thought only nasty OSX could get vulnerabilities and have issues and Windows was flawless!! I think they are just lying to us with propaganda and claiming there are these large list of items/flaws to fix! Nasty El Reg! :(

This one's been up for a while now with no "If you use MacOS / Linux / <insert other OS> you wouldn't have this sort of problem" comment. Must be some kind of record. Is there some kind of international fanboyz' holiday that I wasn't aware of?

TeeCee

Linux is ace and so is OSX. Windows sucks....

Actually I don't really care, as I don't have Linux or a MAC and use Windows (I have a life, so can't be arsed to learn a new whole OS / buy a new pc to repalce the one that works just fine thanks), but due to the lack of fanboys I feal it is my duty to put a pointless "my os is better than yours" comment up...

Still no sighting of "fanboyz/bois/boys" despite months of drumming...

Stu and friends, you might want to start thinking about a bit more novel way to display your "I have a life and I don't know anything about the science and engineering that goes into computers of any kind, hence I'm qualified to tell everyone that bad is the new good and worse is actually better and even if it's not, well Microsoft rules the world anyway because they said so on the telly" smugness lest someone start suspecting the bit about you actually having a life.

do Firefox vulnerabilities receive negative/sarcastic press there certainly has been enough of them.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#Firefox

and exactly how many security patches have been applied to the current Linux kernel?

and i'm a *nix fanboy just not militant about it

Of course Firefox gets a good lashing here, most recently:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/31/firefox_update/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/25/critical_firefox_vuln/

"how many security patches have been applied to the current Linux kernel?" ... hmmm, how long is a piece of string? I wouldn' like to try to count the number of individual security bug fixes since kernel 2.6 came out.

However, my Fedora 7 update repo only contains 4 (i686) rpms:

kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7.i686.rpm kernel-2.6.22.1-33.fc7.i686.rpm

kernel-2.6.22.1-27.fc7.i686.rpm kernel-2.6.22.1-41.fc7.i686.rpm

whereas for FC6 I've got 13.

While you pinheads simper the fact is there has

been a massive trojan infestion thats overwhelming

windows boxes everywhere six critical updates that

have in the past broken things this isn't about anything

but keeping your old pathetic computers still

working for a few more weeks just keep talking it

will keep you from opening any more e-cards.