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CNet: Microsoft: To secure IE, upgrade to XP

Posted September 24th, 2004 at 08:11am

Microsoft: To secure IE, upgrade to XP | CNET News.com

This makes me rather angry. Security is not something that you should have to pay for, especially if you’ve already laid down your hard-earned cash for a product. Understood, it’s not feasible for most businesses to support 10-year-old software like Windows 95, but the 200 million people still using Windows 98, ME and 2000 should not be left open to viruses, trojans and other forms of malware just because they haven’t doled out the money for an upgrade that just wouldn’t be worthwhile to them. Surely a business like Microsoft can issue patches to older versions of Internet Explorer: they certainly have the experience and the manpower to do it. This is just another “forced upgrade” with a large price tag attached.

If you’re one of these 200 million people not running Windows XP, get Firefox.