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 Post subject: Microsoft Security Chief Uses Firefox
PostPosted: Mon 09-06-2004 12:16PM 
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Microsoft's head of security, Stephen Toulouse, has accidentally revealed that he uses Firefox.

In an interview with Wired here , Toulouse was chatting about how security was an industry wide problem and not Internet Explorer specific.

Then he mentioned that only that morning he had to download an upgrade to Firefox to block a flaw that would've allowed an attacker to run a program on his system.

While he meant to point out how other browsers have the same problems as IE, he just happened to reveal that he surfs using the rival browser.

News source: The Inquirer


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PostPosted: Mon 09-06-2004 1:06PM 
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I am surprised he doesn't use every browser. Since Microsoft doens't think of all the stuff it sells and uses. The allow other companies to find this for them and then incorporate those things into Micorsoft's software. In other words, he is most likely looking at how Mozilla fixes problems with FireFox and then see if they can be used to fix problems in IE. But then agian, that is just my interpretation.

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PostPosted: Mon 09-06-2004 1:07PM 
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Wow. An employee of a company is keeping up to date on the competition. Sounds like a good business practice to me.

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PostPosted: Tue 09-07-2004 3:57PM 


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This is my question. How doe firefox differ from mozilla? I mean, waazz aaaap?


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PostPosted: Tue 09-07-2004 5:50PM 
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Firefox is Mozilla. But they split up the email and browser portion that is packaged together with Mozilla.

Firefox is just a browser, Thunderbird is just an email client.


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