posted by rick on January 12th, 2009 at 5:19PM
Because releasing service packs to fix bugs means they're not serious about fixing things. Because Windows is the only piece of software that has bugs. Because only Windows fixes bugs by downloading patches.
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posted by dennisn on January 12th, 2009 at 10:31PM
Window$ is really an example of something that is systematically defective--defective by design. You can have all the best intentions in the world, and it will still suck. A large part of the problem, and also what makes Microsoft Microsoft, is it's centralized nature. Which is paradise for systematic exploits.
Not to mention their prioritizing ease-of-use over security, by not encouraging/forcing users to have separate root and user accounts, etc. So, the idea of the post was not so much that bulk service packs are a bad idea, so much as there is no solution to mega-centralized-binary softwares, except completely replacing them with plausible alternatives (decentralized, open-source, etc). |
