- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Tanikaze
You know why they made IE, right? It wasn't to take over the browser market or to make a lot of money. It's free, and it's barebones. It has almost no features no ad blocking built-in. Microsoft is pretty obviously just providing casual computors with something to check a website update every once in a while, or maybe play some games on Yahoo. That's why all they did was make it compatible with everything. If you haven't noticed, Microsoft makes most of their products user-friendly. There are security risks because of that, but the way MS sees it, their products aren't really targeted at the majority, who probably won't stumble onto that.
Oh, and please don't argue that Macs are easier to use. I don't have any experience(lately, anyway) with Macs.
But the problem is that 9/10 people use IE, and without updates, it's an easy way to get in to Windows, running scripts that open in IE, is not surprisingly, not that hard.
The security risks of using the IE browser, are too great, coupled with the fact that many inexperienced computer users would hesitate to change any software, let alone their browser. It's a hackers dream. Microsoft cannot neglect the product that it's so responsible for. When that many computer users are using the net on software that it is full of holes, it is the responisbility of the company to try and fix those holes.
But, IE has been patched to death for years now, and the end users haven't seen a full update, despite the fact that their browser was the source for many attacks, some costing hundreds of millions of dollars.
Can't say anything about Macs, actually, I'm using Red Hat.