[ale] FW: [ISN] Microsoft Outlook patch delayed again

[Bob]

> Microsoft Corp. said the security patch announced three weeks ago for
> its Outlook 98 and 2000 e-mail clients will likely be released within
> the next two weeks.

This means that it will have taken M$ over five weeks for a patch
(that should be a "no-brainer") to avoid a repeat of the $10,000,000,000
estimated loss due to the ILOVEYOU worm and a stupid M$ bug.

While the Ping of Death was a less harmful Denial of Service attack, Linux
had a patch within four hours.  That's a time ratio of 200.  Which has the
better support?  (Please, no flame wars.)

Bob Toxen
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