Alan wrote:

Why do Microsoft products need so many security updates? Surely after 10
years of development simple programs such as OE and IE should be shipped
free of bugs?

History mostly. MS dis not "get" the internet until the late 90's, at
which point the saw it as a threat (hence the browser wars etc). Their
focus was on winning at any cost, and a way to do this was by cramming
in "features", and effecting ever closer integration and linking between
unrelated products to best exert their monopoly on the desktop OS.
Security did not seem to get any consideration (and to be fair the net
was a far safer place).

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Cheers,

John.

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