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IE7: Microsoft’s most secure Web browser

Posted by cascadehush on October 24, 2006

[video] Security Bites: Microsoft’s most secure Web browser | CNET News.com:

For the first time in five years, Microsoft has released a new version of the Web browser. CNET News.com’s Joris Evers and CNET.com’s Robert Vamosi discuss IE 7’s heavily promoted security features in this week’s Security Bites.

Basic security isn’t a feature; the lack of security is a bug.

Microsoft has a history of selling us things as features when in actually fact they are merely fixes for problems that they engineered in the first place.

But I niggle. Watch the video, if for no other reason than to re-affirm your belief in Firefox.

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[video] Security Bites: Microsoft’s most secure Web browser | CNET News.com

Posted by cascadehush on October 23, 2006

[video] Security Bites: Microsoft’s most secure Web browser | CNET News.com:

For the first time in five years, Microsoft has released a new version of the Web browser. CNET News.com’s Joris Evers and CNET.com’s Robert Vamosi discuss IE 7’s heavily promoted security features in this week’s Security Bites.

Basic security isn’t a feature; the lack of security is a bug.

Posted in Security, Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »