Juvenall Wilson

Now, I’m not one who normally goes off on an anti-Microsoft rant. For the most part, I actually view the company as simply a victim of their own success when it comes to security updates. When you have tens of millions of computers running different versions your software, each with an extremely unique setup, hardware and third-party applications, it can be quite the undertaking to try and create a viable solution that will fit the needs of the majority. With this in mind, I’m always willing to cut them a little slack in the update department. However, there are issues such as the recent WMF flaw that requires far less tolerance.

Not only has Microsoft been beaten to the punch with a hotfix from a thrid-party, but now they’re claiming a fix won’t come for another week. You know, because malicious hackers and spammers tend to wait a few days before pouncing on open exploits in a rumored 99% of consumer systems. You know, it’s infallible logic like this that makes me believe the Bush administration outsourced it’s intelligence research on Iraq’s WMD to Microsoft.

What the hell are they thinking on this? A blindfolded monkey strung out on PCP could tell you this isn’t something to wait for. While some will argue that they’re doing this for system administrators, I personally say screw them. Issue too many patches, they bitch about the extra work. Don’t get one out fast enough and they whine that MS doesn’t know what they’re doing. So for once, do the smart thing for the end consumer and push something out now. Do this for the people like my father who will visit, download or open anything with pornographic terminology in it. Do it so spammers won’t have a super easy time installing spyware or virii on a suckers system. Do it so I can finally stop explaining to people what the hell a WMF file is.