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In the software industry...: "Well, I'm glad there are many like you (and me) willing to explore new software. Personally, I like IE and looking forward to going back to IE7 as long as I stay on the Windows platform."

I believe in teh software industry if you always stick to what you know. You'll end up lagging behind the rest.

I have encountered this with people who "fix" people's computers. Many refuse to use new software because it's untested.. While I sit there going? Well how the hell are you going to know if you don't try it?

Most will do it for 2 seconds and go.. "I don't like it".

To me that just shows you have no ability to stay on top. Which is a must in this industry. Use all tools to make your computing a good experience whether MS, Mozilla etc etc...

"dismiss that as typical anti-MS rhetoric . I believe IE7 and Longhorn, for that matter, will be rock solid and highley secure. Unfortuneately for MS, they built so much capability and flexibility in the current and past generation of OS and browser code that has led to problems. It's like the more windows you put in your house (punn intended) the more vulnerable it is. The next generation promises to be very good and I am certain that it will be."

As much as I dislike these topics of discussion because it usually ends up in a flame war I can see you may be able to handle a rational discussion.

Problem with people who defend Active X, is they do not understand the back-end of Active X and how Active X works. In my time as a software developer, we enjoy the usefullness of ActiveX controls but we realize the security issues that come with it.

If you allow any internet joe run some control on your computer that can run applications you are bound to run into security issues no matter how secure you think it is.

I am not dissing you in the least, I'm just saying it's proven ActiveX is not "rock solid secure" and never will be based on the fact that it's built on an insecure object model. That in itself is the problem.

By the way I do believe Longhorn will be more secure than XP. I do believe it will be way the hell more stable and I'll admit.. I'd love to see one of those "red screens of death" just to see it.

But as we have seen, with every new version for Windows (especially servers) we've encountered it to be harder to configure security in your implementations.

It's almost a crapshoot at times, and you'd almost need a full blown degree now with Windows Security just to understand how complex it is. I mean I thought they were trying to make it easier?

I've found it almost "comical" setting up ASP .NET sites and how you can flip a random switch and all those hours you've spent setting users up etc have gone to waste because that flag was turned on or off.

I think the problem obviously lies with IIS which I think is about the worst thing ever to come out of Redmond.

They should of followed the golden rule.. KISS.
Keep It Simple Stupid.; Posted by: ju1ce Posted on: 06/07/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use