Zero-day backdoors to be left unplugged on Patch Tuesday Microsoft plans to release two updates – one critical – as part of the next edition of its Patch Tuesday security bulletin cycle on 11 January. The critical vulnerability affects all supported versions of Windows (including Windows 7 and 2008R2) while the less serious fix is particular to a flaw that's restricted to Windows …
Just reporting, for any techie out there who might want to make the jump, that it is, indeed, possible to live MS-free. It even appears to be profitable.
Actually, I'm not 100% MS-free. I have a nearly eleven year old Win2K box that only exists to run ACad2K ... it's what I drew up the plans for the ranch with, and I see no need to ever update it. Naturally, she's air-gapped. I was going to reclaim the hardware for something else on her tenth birthday, but my Wife commuted the sentence with a simple "Let's see how long she can make it!". That's nearly 11 years, original install, no crashes, malware, or other headaches. I never said I don't know how to select the proper hardware to make MS products sing, just that I don't enjoy it.
It really is about time MS (and other software writters) started getting fined for sitting on known deffects and not getting their finger out to fix them.
If a car manufacturer sits on a defect, and doesn't issue a recall notice PDQ, they get fined, serious "hurts the bottom line" money.
MS is making billions of dollars shipping poorly tested code (see recent outlook update for classic example), and it's reponse to serious flaws being reported, would indicate they don't care, probably much more profitable to use their coders time to add silly features to sharepoint 20nnRn, etc.
If software vendors where fined by governments to cover the cost to the local economy their security defects cause, I'm betting we would be getting a sub-24 hr patches.
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