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Story: Malware authors exploit Microsoft's monthly cycles

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Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 5 January 2005, 10:48 PM)

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Maybe if Microsoft were a little more conscientious about following standards and bodies of work that are not their own, and abandoned their embrace, extend and extinguish tactics, maybe the other kids in the sandbox would play nicer regarding them.

So why doesnt IE support the hover psuedo class on anything but an anchor anyway?

Same question.... Certainly with their financial mass and code secrecy they can certainly hire more people to find and extinguish their own software flaws. All of them :)

What someone does with their hard earned discovery of Microsoft flaws is _their_ intellectual property and owes the big guy no quarter whatsoever.

Maybe Microsoft can dish it out but cant take it

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