Can Microsoft Ever Get It Right?

[NoStop]

"Just days after Microsoft rushed out a patch for a bug in Windows Metafile
(WMF) image processing, a security company has warned customers that
multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities in the same rendering engine
could leave users open to attack."

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175802831

"Numerous additional problems with Windows' handling of .wmf format files
have been identified, according to reports."

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/82036/windows-hit-with-more-wmf-problems.html

When can Windows users start to actually use their computers rather than
spending all their time downloading patches and "cleaning up" their
systems?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Myself and countless others use our computers now.
The paranoid and those skipping safe computing practices are the ones ending
up with the large majority of the problems.

 

[Plato]

The paranoid and those skipping safe computing practices are the ones ending
up with the large majority of the problems.

Agreed.

 

[Jonny]

Seems to me its more of threats on the internet introduced by many people,
and MS, AVs, antispyware, keylogging sniffers attempting to keeping up with
it all.

None of these patches, fixes, updates are really needed otherwise. Except
perhaps SP1 to fully utilize HDs in excess of 132GBs.

.............
Jonny