More WMF problems for Microsoft

[Deja Q]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009-6024931.html

Just days after Microsoft rushed out a patch to fix a critical Windows flaw related to the processing of Windows Meta File images, two more problems with the component were flagged.

Oh. Good. Who else is going to lose money because of this?

No wonder security remains a hot IT commodity. Make a pig-pen of a product and the pigs will make it a self-fulfilling "revenue" stream...

Trouble is, that's costly for businesses - most of them, anyway - are looking for methods to cut costs (e.g. offshoring and offpeopling.) Using Microsoft products at this point is hardly cost-effective as you need people around to keep testing MS patches to determine if the damn things won't break the systems or not, downtime isn't good either... and implementing the patches with great care so they don't break the systems (and Microsoft's fluffed up there too!). And now that patches can make things worse... corporations need to do more than find novel ways of nixing employees if they want to remain profitable. (Which will ultimately be impossible; no employees means the ex-employees have no income to spend. No money to spend on the products the businesses sell. In turn the businesses go under and the economy suffers. What's the point of offering something if people can't afford it? (Which means globalization is going to fail too.) Oops, I digressed. Sorry!)

Sorry to be potentially annoying (it's inevitable that, in a nation of 350 million, somebody's going to get annoyed at some point), but I'd fathom that many corporate execs are even more annoyed over Microsoft's constant techno-gaffes. Microsoft is depended upon in the industry, that is incontrovertible! Why can't Bill be hauled off to jail? He's ultimately responsible for the actions of his company; and he's annoyed a lot of folks over the decades with second rate shoddy products that sell solely because they look glossy and appeal to the lowest common denominator. (Heck, anyone else remember how Microsoft promoted Windows 2000 by dissing its own Windows 95?! No other company would survive if they did that...)

[atommom]

1. Bill annoyed them under his own name, so it's legal.

;)