Has Microsoft Gone to the Dogs?

Question

Has microsoft gone to the Dogs or Something?

Lately, I can't update my windows xp using updates from my control panel.

Now I update to IE 7 Beta 2 and the stinking thing tells me
the online service is unavailable. But when I switch back to
older version of IE, it works.

Finally, everytime I find spyware on my system, it is linked
to the IE browser.

Is Microsoft just useless?

Answer 1

Microsoft is useless, if windows vista turns out to be another shitty reproduction of windows XP im just going to buy a mac. My friend has the powerbook and loves it doesn't have any problems with it AT ALL. IE is terrible. I hate microsoft. Switch to Firefox, its much better.

Answer 2

IE 6 & up is a competent browser if set up properly. I use SPYBOT from www.safer-networking.org, to keep my systems spyware/malware free. The key is to start with a clean system which can be hard to do. On infected systems I use spybot and HiJackThis to clean them. If these two can not do the job, I reformat and start over. Once cleaned or started over, I run SpyBot immunize, and set my cookie handling as follows. 1st Party = Prompt, Third Party = Block, Session Cookies = Allow. Finally I utilize the trusted sites zone to add the HTTPS sites I frequent. With these steps I rarely encounter spyware/malware, and in those instances it is usually relatively harmelss software anyway. HTH

IE is just as good as other browsers, except that Microsoft leaves the choices up to the user. A properly configured Windows XP system with IE is as safe as any other.

Answer 3

I have no problems using Windows Update of Microsoft update services. You should check your own PC for registry and/or spywares problems instead. This sounds to be a local problem... an issue with your PC.

Microsoft useless? hmmm...if it was, why are you using their products. Some people like 'em...others don't, others prefer Linux. It's a personal choice, i guess. There are no perfect Os, because line codes are written by humans, and humans are not perfect.

Best regards,

Jose Campo
MCSA, A+, Net+, CST

Answer 4

There is a better browser than IE that works with windows and it is free. It accepts the upgrades to windows where as IE does not. What you need to do is get rid of IE upgrade and make Acoo your main browser, then you won't have problems with IE and there hidden spyware.

Answer 5

Windows xp activation is hard sometimes I paid $300.00 for windows xp about three years ago I ordered it on line from a place called Tiger connect Installed it up dated no
problem,But I had to format my hard drive many times for one reason or an other now I ca not activate windows xp when I format , I had to call the number ap[pear on the screen when you cant activate then they told me this software was activated many times you have to buy a new software but they activated it. what I did I installed an other hard drive and backed up th partition from the first hard drive to the other one, any thing happened to the hart drive I restore every thing from the second drive to the first in about twenty minutes, I do not need Microsoft any more. you could do the same.

Answer 6

Actually to get updated i would go to automatic updates.
and ie7 is a beta it does not actually work right it is there to be tested you ae being a gini pig thats how software works as too the spyware spyware likes ie7 because everyone has it so it dosnt have to guess i would get firefox http://www.mozilla.org

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Yes! You should always have a Mac handy. Now that Apple has gone Intel, you don'ty have to worry about two computer that can't transfer file. Mac is much safer and easy to use (even a monkey can't make it crash) Stick to Mac whenever possible!

Answer 9

I don't think Microsoft has went to the dogs yet,my dog doesn't own a computer and neither does his buddies.

Answer 10

Get a Mac and you will learn that yes, there is a bright world out there... and it can exist without Microsoft.