The Priorities of Microsoft

Last week there was a discussion about a scratch install of Windows 98SE,
what to do, when to do it, etc.  I wasn't the one whose project started the
discussion but as fate would have it, over the weekend I did a scratch
install of Windows 98SE on a friend's PC that had apparently never had it
done before and was in serious need of it.

After the installation of Windows when I did the first Windows Update I
knew that the first thing that it would do would be to update Internet
Explorer to the current version but I had never paid much attention to the
second and third things that Windows Update did.  The second was to load
the latest version of DirectX.  The third thing was to load the cumulative
security update for Internet Explorer.  Each required a reboot in between.

If I didn't have a broadband Internet connection and wanted to get on with
my life I might not have done everything right away.  You would think that
with the big bull's-eye that Internet Explorer and Windows have painted on
them for viruses, spyware, etc. Microsoft would have prioritized that over
their graphics platform.

I wonder who made that decision...?


Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx