Ever wondered why you are always told to buy firewall software, even though your router probably has a firewall built in, and your operating system probably does too?
Ever wondered why you have to pay for antivirus software, even though it would be fairly trivial for the operating system manufacturer to add this by default - or at least alter the obvious weaknesses that make the viruses so rampant on that specific platform in the first place?
Ever wondered why you have to pay for additional privacy controls, even when the operating system claims to have privacy built into the operating system?
Internet Explorer just became less private thanks to Microsoft bowing to the advertising agencies. That's right - they dropped the ball. The ability to mess your screen up with animated advertisements everywhere you look trumps all security and privacy controls, again.
Microsoft is falling behind so badly, next thing you know, they'll be making an iPad clone. I wonder what "new" security issues will come of that.
Wow, great article and post. I can't believe that they would trade security for a little bit of advertising money. I mean who wants to use a platform that has the ability to ruin their system?
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