[Growler]

Microsoft's the biggest kid on the block; of course people are going to take potshots. Some may be justified, some, not so much.

I used Firefox until it started getting v....e....r....y....s....l....o....w.... loading pages. Then I switched to Chrome; I'm satisfied with it, and with the Firewall and Security software I've loaded onto this thing. It's not a matter of which one's "more secure" or whatever. I just like what I use at the moment.

And consider: Microsoft is writing and maintaining how many zillion lines of code, on how many different types of platforms, across how many languages, across how many different iterations of not only OS, but also web browsers, Office software... frankly, I'm not surprised that there are errors and holes. What amazes me is that any of it works at all, let alone as well as it does.