As long as you think "ALL of these problems have a single source", you
will probably never see the whole picture.
No one said the fault is exclusively the 3rd party application.
But it is also not exclusively Microsoft's.

People have been demanding more secure and better written code of
Microsoft, well now it came.
Do you also go to the 3rd party manufacturers that have problems and
demand the same from them?
If not why not?
Is your solution to break Windows XP and make all other applications
work at all costs?

The manufacturers have had many months to see if they had a problem.
Some worked it out and had information available for their customers
when needed.
Others snubbed their customers, blaming Microsoft ignoring the fact
they could have been working the issue and have a solution or at least
near a solution at this time..
And still others no longer exist.

Microsoft and others listed applications known to have issues to help
the customers have better information.

If we are to have secure computing, it is going to take great effort
amongst the development community, not just Microsoft.
The users will also have to learn safe computing practices.
If you expect Microsoft to accomplish secure computing alone, prepare
for very unsafe computing.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Wislu Plethora" wrote in
message ...
Dumb and dumberer. Many 3rd party developers *did* take
the opportunity to update, and it was an expense that
they shouldn't have had to bear, because their original
code was COMPLIANT with the original platform. We now
have oafish users who are totally clueless when it comes
to the idea of software patches who have AU turned on,
trust in MS and install it, only to find out that some
of their programs aren't working. Shame on them for their
ignorance, but the fact remains that ALL of these problems
have a single source, and it's not 3rd party developers,
nor stupid users, nor spyware.