Oh dear. More bad news for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6. Slashdot linked me to this Washington Post article yesterday sighting that IE was unsafe 284 days in 2006, opposed to Mozilla FireFox's 9 days. I tried to jump to Microsoft's defense as always, gently reminding that Microsoft held a ginormous amount of the market share... and that exploiters would be probing IE as a matter of course... but a quick witted repliant reminded me that it was not so much the number of vulnerabilities that Internet Explorer encountered last year but the response time. Checking the raw data I quickly saw what he meant... Microsoft's response time last year over all vulnerabilities was a staggering 41.2 days per issue over all vulnerabilities and 26 days per issue over actively exploited vulnerabilities. No excuse.
Perhaps the corporate condition at Microsoft causes the delay of this giant, but if that is the case... MS needs to start decentralizing to cope with an ever changing... more dangerous world. Of course, whether Mozilla's response time drops in 2007 as FireFox increases in popularity remains to be seen. Remember I fight in Microsoft's corner recognizing the underdog. After all... the only two acceptable prejudices in the world today? The Catholic Church and Microsoft.
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